From the BBC and Associated Press
Colombia is celebrating the 80th birthday of Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with cities across the country holding events, and Spain is holding a marathon reading of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude led by Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la and 80 politicians, writers and actors from the Spanish-speaking world.
The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, in its fourth congress in the colonial Caribbean port of Cartegena in Colombia, has released a special commemorative edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude to honour 'Gabo'.
Some quotes:
"I only know that from the time I was 17 until this morning I've done nothing more than wake up early every day, sit in front of a set of keys to fill a blank page or a blank screen with the sole mission of writing a story never before told that will make life happy for a reader who doesn't exist ..." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
"I believe he's the most important writer of fiction in any language since William Faulkner died ..." (Former US President, Bill Clinton, who read the book in 1972 when he was in Law school.)
"Only time will tell if he's as important to Spanish literature as Cervantes ... we may have to wait 500 years to find out." (Gerald Martin, a University of Pittsburgh professor who is working on a biography of Garcia Marquez.)
Read More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6422579.stm and http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070326/ap_en_ot/books_garcia_marquez
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