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To: coug who wrote (220747)	1/7/2012 10:09:15 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363583

On..Gabriel....... In 1996 a shadowy group of kidnappers in Colombia abducted the brother of the nation’s President. Their terms for his release included a demand that writer Gabriel García Márquez take over as head of state. No, not even Hemingway or Faulkner got that kind of fan support. Márquez’s clout out- side of normal literary circles was demonstrated in other instances, for example when he was brought in as an inter- mediary between govern- ment and terrorist groups. Or when his friend Fidel Castro gave the author a mansion in Havana not too far from the leader’s own. But such bosom buddies bring with them risks: a New Yorker profile of Márquez from 1999 noted that the author traveled around his home country in a car equipped with bulletproof glass and a bombproof chassis. When not intervening in affairs of state, Márquez writes novels, notably One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), and played a decisive role in legitimizing magical realism as a high literary style in the modern day. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, and was only the fourth Latin American author to be so honored. His memorable response—"Ahhh, I think I'm gonna relax after all this now!"—proved to be a happily botched prediction, and Márquez stands out