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Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Won't Write Any More Books'

by Jarrett Martineau | April 2, 2009 at 10:40 am

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Acclaimed Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose internationally-celebrated works of Nobel Prize-winning magic realist fiction have made him "one of the most significant authors of the 20th century", will not write another book.

Marquez's agent Carmen Balcells does not "think that García Márquez will write anything else".

Having published his last novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, almost five years ago, Marquez has long faced rumours that his writing career has come to an end.

He is the 82-year old giant of Latin American literature who pioneered the school of magical realism and inspired a generation of novelists. But Gabriel Garcia Marquez has barely written a word since his last novel, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, came out to distinctly mixed reviews five years ago.

Now fans of the Colombian author are facing the prospect that, after a career spanning half a century, Garcia Marquez has finally laid down his pen for good.

His agent, Carmen Balcells, told the Chilean newspaper La Tercera : "I don't think that García Márquez will write anything else."

Despite longstanding rumours he would never write again, hopes were raised last year when the Colombian writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, a friend, said Marquez was in fact working on a new novel.

Marquez, however, has acknowledged the tremendous strain his writing career has placed on his life and told his fans last December that "he was worn out by writing".

The author, who recently turned 82, is best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

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