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Collected speeches of one of the world's most beloved writers, published together for the first time.

About the Author

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

Reviews

'Radiates a familiar humorous charm and robust sensuality' -- Irish Times
This volume should fit nicely inside a Christmas stocking, perhaps belonging to a young writer -- The Independent
I'm Not Here... proves the Colombian to be as poetic and polemical in speaking as he was in writing -- ArtReview
One of this century's most evocative writers -- Anne Tyler
Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do -- Salman Rushdie
An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny * Sunday Telegraph *