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Carmen Balcells

  • Kyle Williams

    Gabo

    He had smoked 30,000 cigarettes and run through 120,000 pesos (about $10,000). Mercedes asked, “And what if, after all this, it’s a bad novel?” Sally Soames, for Vanity Fair, writes a long and lovely memorial to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, his…

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas

    Powerhouse Spanish Literary Agent Remembered

    The New Yorker has a retrospective on Carmen Balcells, a Spanish literary agent who brought writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Luis Borges to international fame. Balcells passed away last week at the age of 85. Balcells…