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How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

The Conversation

You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing

From Italo Calvino to Dorothea Brande, Emma Cummins reflects on the books that inspire her as a writer

The Guardian - UK

Gustavo Petro: first leftist president faces tough challenge in Colombia

Despite the election euphoria, Petro has a thin mandate and is viewed with suspicion by many

The Guardian - UK

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Letters sent to García Márquez to be shown in Mexico City

While reviewing the photo archives left by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, one of his granddaughters came across a mysterious plastic box with the word “grandchildren” written on its label

The Independent UK

Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations

Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe

The Guardian - UK

Afghan students run underground book club to keep dreams alive

A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.

Al Jazeera

Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library

The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him

The Guardian - UK

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Not just ‘cocaine and war’: Colombian pride at Oscar-winning Encanto’s positive portrayal

Animated film, influenced heavily by magical realism, breaks frequent representation as country beset by drugs and violence

The Guardian - US

Colombian author García Márquez had secret Mexican daughter

For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s

The Independent UK

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