There has been some concern that 82 year old Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez would never write another book. But that concern was allayed when a close friend announced that Marquez is working on a new book. Garcia Marquez's next book will be a love story, though his friend and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said that the author was struggling to come up with a version that he was ...

Uncovered records reveal that Columbian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was spied on for decades by the Mexican intelligence agency DFS, which is now defunct. The DFS, which was roughly equivalent to the CIA, considered Garcia Marquez to be a Cuban agent. The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate's phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico wi...

The Guardian newspaper reports that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's agent says that another book from the 82-year-old author is unlikely.

After admitting that he did not write a single line in 2005, Gabriel Garcia Marquez reportedly has a new novel in the works--and is trying to decide which version to publish. In an interview, the author's friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said that the new Marquez book will be a love story. The friend also called the year-long writer's block a "sabbatical," noting that the new novel is not f...

Carmen Balcells, the agent supporting Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela, has bypassed publishers and struck a deal to publish both Nobel laureates directly through the Spanish digital book company, leer-e. The books retail for 5 euros, but according to the Guardian, most Spanish paperbacks sell for 20 euros. Around twelve books are currently available, but the deal will soon include 120 ...

The venerable Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has set pages fluttering in publishing circles by furiously denying reports that he’ll never write again.

Acclaimed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- known for the magical realism of his novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" -- moved to Mexico from his native Colombia in the 1960s. And for years,...

Here we go again. Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez once again has had to declare that -- contrary to false reports -- that he has not retired, and is still writing. In fact, he says he writes constantly. What's so weird about this story is that, this time, the nasty rumor was started by his own literary agent. Last week, the One Hundred Years of Solitude author's literary agent Carm...

Gerald Martin's biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is now available (in the UK), and the first few reviews are out.

Production of a film based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores is being met with opposition from anti-prostitution groups in Mexico. HuffPo has the story.