Title: Listening to Gabriel García Márquez
Speaker: Catalina Gómez (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Talía Guzmán-González (Librarian, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress); Marie Arana (writer and Literary Consultant, Library of Congress); Gabriel García Márquez (author)
Series: Listening to the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape
Date: November 27, 2017
Running Time: 28:32 minutes
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Description:
Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez recorded for the Library of Congress’ Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape in 1977. Reference Librarians Catalina Gómez and Talía Guzmán-González speak with writer an journalist Marie Arana and discuss an excerpt from this historic recording. The episode also includes clips of García Marquez’s recording for our collection. The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) is an audio archive of more than 750 recordings of poets and prose writers from the Luso-Hispanic world reading from their works. Part of the archive is now available for online streaming.
The entire list of authors recorded for the AHLOT can be consulted here.
