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Reinaldo Arenas in France in June 1988. The writer believed homosexuality began to flourish in Cuba as a protest against Fidel Castro’s regime. (Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

‘Before Night Falls’: Reinaldo Arenas breaks down (in) Fidel Castro’s Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat

  • Percy Zvomuya
11 min read
‘As a growing global movement serves notice on the ubiquity of predatory forms of sexuality we must take full measure of the weight of the fact
CHE GUEVARA

‘She was right to regard me with contempt’

Rape culture can lodge even within a progressive project, as the example of Pablo Neruda shows

  • Richard Pithouse
9 min read
Author Gabriel García Márquez.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Dementia ends Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writing career

The brother of the Nobel prize-winning Colombian writer says the side-effects of cancer treatment have accelerated his decline.

  • Guardian Reporter
3 min read
CHINA

Marquez novel gets authorised release in Chinese

Publisher paid $1m for right to publish Chinese edition of <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, reports say.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
ALISON FLOOD

Master of the universe

Gabriel G&aacute;rcia M&aacute;rquez’s seminal novel, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, is the book that has most shaped world literature.

  • Alison Flood
3 min read
COLOMBIA

Gabriel García Márquez, literary giant, lays down his pen

He is the 82-year old giant of Latin American literature who pioneered the school of magical realism and inspired a generation of novelists.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read