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An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature�the only collection of interviews with Marquez available � Hailed by the�New York Times�as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of�One Hundred Years of Solitude.�Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is surely the most popular literary novelist in translation�and he remains so today, a decade after the publication of his final novel. In addition to the first-ever English translation of Marquez�s last interview, this unprecedented volume includes his first interview, conducted while he was in the throes of writing�One Hundred Years of Solitude,�which reveals the young writer years before the extraordinary onslaught of success that would make him a household name around the world. Also featured is a series of unusually wide-ranging conversations with Marquez's friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza�surely the only interview with Marquez that includes the writer's insights into both the meaning of true love and the validity of superstitions.�Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview�also contains two interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning�New York Times�reporter David Streitfeld. A wide-ranging and revealing book,�Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview�is an essential book for lifelong fans of Marquez�and readers who are just getting encountering the master's work for the first time.