
The Cuban women who whisper to cigar rollers
In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who hand-roll cigars, while also answering their questions

In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who hand-roll cigars, while also answering their questions

The Nobel Prize winner had a romantic life worthy of a novel. He married a relative 12 years his senior, then left her for another one. In 2015, he began a high-profile relationship with a star of gossip magazines

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a convert

The movement to which the Nobel laureate belonged promoted the hyperbolic freedom of a fiction that was unlimited and furiously aware of its own ability to change the world with words and with the courage of inventiveness

The British-Indian writer speaks to EL PAÍS about his new relationship with death, what Netflix failed to reflect about ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ as well as the crisis within the founding myth of the United States being a country of immigrants. ‘Americans should be careful what they wish for’

From January 30 until February 3, one of the most important cultural events in Latin America takes place, 20 years after it was inaugurated with the blessing of Gabriel García Márquez

The Netflix series has gotten mixed reviews as it inevitably falls short of the perfection of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel despite sticking closely to his prose

The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel is a tribute to a Colombian history woven from both magic and violence

For some of the winners of the award, which will be announced this Thursday in Stockholm, it was a ‘kiss of death.’ Many never wrote any more notable works, and others felt uneasy about the loss of their privacy

The 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez has become the publishing phenomenon of the summer in Japan, largely due to the upcoming release of the Netflix series based on the book

‘Until August’ — Gabo’s posthumous book — will hit bookstores on March 12. Underlying this novella by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner are doubts about his desire to publish it, as well as the reasons why his heirs made the decision to do so. EL PAÍS visited the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, where five drafts of the short novel — with his handwritten corrections — are treasured, along with the rest of the Nobel Prize winner’s legacy

On the 100th anniversary of the entertainment company, the Chilean writer analyzes the validity of his 1972 work, which points out how iconic cartoon characters have been utilized as means of American propaganda

His most lasting legacy was to inject the virus of corruption into a more or less stable democracy, and even to forever disrupt the value system of Colombian society

Shaped by the political and literary climate of the time, the award does not assure a spot in the literary canon and often overlooks exceptional authors

In collaboration with documentary filmmaker Jon Intxaustegi, EL PAÍS offers excerpts from a 1994 interview with the Colombian Nobel Prize winner in which he discusses music, the Caribbean, money, love, books and ideas

In ‘The Joke’, the Czech-French writer began to explore the subject that would haunt him all his life: human beings’ fight against the forces that rob them of their freedom

The Colombian author’s inheritors have decided to publish ‘En agosto nos vemos’ (’See you in August’), a story that the Nobel laureate never managed to finish and left at 150 pages

A soccer coach who is thriving in France’s Ligue 1 despite not holding a UEFA Pro license, Still is following in the footsteps of a whole host of illustrious autodidacts

The writer Jaime Bayly novels the blow that broke the friendship between the Nobel Prize winners

The Spanish-Peruvian author and Nobel laureate spoke with EL PAÍS at his home in Madrid ahead of his induction into the prestigious Académie Française

Nobel laureate discusses ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ at Spanish open university course in Madrid