[Our apologies to Peter Jordens who sent this news to us back in mid-June (thank you!)… but there is still time to catch the exhibition if you find yourselves in Mexico City.] Within the context of the fortieth anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize in Literature, which the writer received in 1982, 30 letters—written by politicians, writers, filmmakers and actors—are exhibited on the Gabriel García Márquez Home of Literature (his household dwelling in Mexico Metropolis) in a present entitled “Gabo a 40 años del Nobel: El escritor sí tiene quien le escribe” [Gabo 40 years after the Nobel Prize: The writer does have someone to write to him]. The exhibition opened on June 16 and will likely be on view by August 16, 2022. Fabiola Sánchez (Related Press) reviews:
Whereas reviewing the photograph archives left by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, certainly one of his granddaughters got here throughout a mysterious plastic field with the phrase “grandchildren” written on its label.
At first, Emilia García Elizondo was afraid to open the field, however curiosity overcame her. Inside had been 150 unpublished letters that he obtained from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, former U.S. President Invoice Clinton, Cuban President Fidel Castro and actor Robert Redford, amongst others.
Forty of the letters will likely be exhibited for 2 months beginning June 16 within the colonial home within the southern a part of Mexico’s capital the place García Márquez lived along with his spouse, Mercedes Barcha, from the Nineteen Eighties till his demise in 2014.
The exhibition is a part of celebrations for the fortieth anniversary of his profitable the Nobel literature prize. One other occasion, which incorporates the exhibition “Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a World Author,” will open June 18 in Mexico’s Museum of Trendy Artwork.
“I’m 32 years previous and all this continues to impress me,” García Elizondo, who’s director of the García Márquez basis, advised The Related Press, describing her shock at discovering the field in a cupboard on the second ground of her grandparents’ home. She had handed the cupboard many occasions with out paying a lot consideration to it.
García Márquez’s granddaughter mentioned the invention was a shock for the household as a result of they thought all his letters and private correspondences had been within the Harry Ransom Heart on the College of Texas at Austin, which possesses the biggest assortment of the author’s paperwork.
“One by no means expects to search out this type of factor despite the fact that one already is aware of who Gabo is … I’ll all the time assume that Gabo does the whole lot like magic,” she mentioned. García Márquez is know affectionately in Latin America as Gabo.
Among the many letters that will likely be exhibited are 5 from Castro, one from Neruda, two from Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, two from Mexican guerrilla chief Subcomandante Marcos, one from Redford, one from director Woody Allen and 7 from Clinton.
For unique article, see https://www.nbcnews.com/information/latino/letters-gabriel-garci-marquez-worlds-famous-revealed-new-exhibit-rcna33880
See video “Descubiertas 150 cartas dirigidas a García Márquez” (EuroNews): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fyyDr9XeQ
Additionally see https://www.diariodemexico.com/andenes/gabo-40-anos-del-nobel-el-escritor-si-tiene-quien-le-escriba-exponen-correspondencia-del and https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20220616/8343882/gabriel-garcia-marquez-cartas-ineditas-exposicion.html