The Guardian newspaper reports that Gabriel Garcia Marquez‘s agent says that another book from the 82-year-old author is unlikely. “I don’t think that Garcia Marquez will write anything else,” says Carmen Balcells.
His biographer, Gerald Martin also states that he is doubtful that anything new will be published, “I also believe that Gabo won’t write any more books, but I don’t think this is too regrettable, because as a writer it was his destiny to have the immense satisfaction of having a totally coherent literary career many years before the end of his natural life.”
Contradicting that is Marquez’s friend and fellow writer, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza who indicates that Marquez is in fact already writing another book.
Marquez, who is best known for his books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, last published a book 5 years ago. Memories of My Melancholy Whores met with mixed reviews.
At the Guadalajara book fair in Mexico in December, Marquez told his fans that writing was wearing him out. “It’s a lot of work for me to write books,” he said.
The man is an octogenarian after all – well deserving of retirement from any profession if he so chooses.
I would be interested to know whether a corrected proof for Memories of My Melancholy Whores appeared. If so, I have one, if not I was stiffed.
I believe the correction was made to the ending, for the English version, but too late for the Spanish publication, to counter pre-publishing leaks in South America.