hrc.utexas.edu/ Exhibition on view through July 19, 2020. Selections from the archive of internationally renowned and Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) will be on view for the first time during an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

The bilingual exhibition, Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer, examines how the Colombian author who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 became an international success soon after the publication of his 1967 novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad). Now translated into more than 45 languages, the book has worldwide sales approaching 50 million copies.

In 1965, Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer living in Mexico City and mostly unknown beyond Mexican and Colombian literary circles. For almost two decades he struggled to become a full-time fiction writer. In 1967, the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude and its ensuing international success transformed its author into one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Drawing primarily on the García Márquez Collection at the Ransom Center, the exhibition, comprising approximately 300 items including numerous documents never seen in public before, explains to visitors how García Márquez became a literary star and a classic writer. Throughout his life, García Márquez repeatedly thanked his family and friends for their support. Woven throughout the exhibition, correspondence, photographs, and videos illustrate how García Márquez's professional circle supported his literary career.

See the García Márquez digital collection here: ransom.center/GGM_dc

This exhibition is curated by Álvaro Santana-Acuña, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Whitman College, for the Harry Ransom Center.