![]() ![]() But in the context of the Cold War García Márquez’s left-wing views led to his being refused entry to the USA, and later to his only being granted limited visas. The political atmosphere in the USA and Europe at the time favoured the emergence of radical voices from outside the literary mainstream, and the Latin Americans fitted the bill. It was that he inspired confidence in other writers and attracted attention to a literary world that was almost completely ignored internationally up to that point beyond the likes of Borges and Neruda. The significance of his success was not that there were imitators (there were, though few were any good). Within 15 years, the novel had been translated into multiple languages and won the Nobel Prize. ![]() The success of One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 spearheaded what was later understood as the boom of Latin American literature in the 60s and 70s. He achieved that rare feat for a Latin American writer of living by his creative work, without ever losing his passion for journalism. ![]() Novelist, short story writer, journalist, film critic, writer of screen plays, Gabriel García Márquez was a man of many facets and extraordinary skill. ![]()
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