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News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez

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Author Biography

Name: Gabriel García Márquez
Birth Date: 1928
Nationality: Columbian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, short-story writer, journalist

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Biography of Gabriel García Márquez
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Gabriel García Márquez (born 1928) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose works earned him the reputation of being the greatest living writer of Castilian in Spain and Latin America. Born in Aracata, Magdalena, G...
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Biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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1928. Born in Aracataca, Colombia. "... Everyone knows that I was born with the umbilical cord tangled around my neck almost strangling me. This was the origin of my terrible claustrophobia."1 "... I happen to come from the Caribbean part of Colombia, wh...
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Biography of Gabriel García Márquez
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The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflective mode that characterizes other Latin-American fiction of the mid t...
 


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News of a Kidnapping Information
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News of a Kidnapping (Original Spanish title Noticia de un secuestro) is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez. It was first published in Spanish in 1996, with an English translation released in 1997. The book recounts the kidnapping,...


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Obituaries in the news
7/27/2007: 891 words, approx. 3 pages
Matthew NagleBROCKTON, Mass. (AP) _ Matthew Nagle, who volunteered for a groundbreaking treatment for the paralyzed that allowed him to use his brain signals to work a computer, died Monday. He was 27.He died at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. Nagle fell into a...
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France's Sarkozy calls for new law to limit early release of repeat sex offenders
8/20/2007: 417 words, approx. 1 pages
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Monday for a halt to early prison release for some pedophiles, expressing his anger at the high-profile alleged kidnapping and rape of a 5-year-old boy by a repeat sex offender who had been prescribed Viagra while behind bars.After a meeting...
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French shocked at alleged rape of 5-year-old boy by repeat sex offender
8/20/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pages
The alleged rape of a 5-year-old boy by a repeat sex offender who had been prescribed Viagra while behind bars has shocked the French people, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday.The boy was kidnapped from his home in the northern town of Roubaix on Wednesday and...
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Alleged rape of 5-year-old boy by repeat sex offender spurs call to change French law
8/20/2007: 444 words, approx. 2 pages
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Monday for a halt to early prison release for some pedophiles after a 5-year-old boy was allegedly raped by a repeat sex offender who had been prescribed Viagra while behind bars.The boy was kidnapped from his home in the northern...
 


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Analzyes the book, News Of a Kidnapping, by Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez. Provides biographical detail on the life of the author and offers a plot summary.


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