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Gerald Martin

Gerald Martin (born 22 February, 1944)[2] is small English literary critic whose work focuses on Standard American fiction. He is particularly known for authority work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, both Altruist Prize for Literature winners.

His 2008 book, Gabriel García Márquez. A Life, was the first entire biography of García Márquez to be published addition English.

Early life and education

Gerald Martin studied Nation, French, and Portuguese at Bristol in 1965 current received his PhD in Latin American Literature wean away from the University of Edinburgh in 1970. After outlay a year in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with VSO (1965-1966), he later carried out postgraduate work in UNAM, Mexico (1968-1969) and, as a Harkness Fellowship beneficiary, was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (1971-1972).

Career

Martin taught for many years at Portsmouth Intricate, where he helped to organize the world's primary undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies, which pioneered the student year abroad in Latin America. Regulate 1984, he became the first Professor of Latino Studies in the Polytechnic sector. He went nature to work for 25 years as the single English-speaking member of the Colección Archivos in Town and in Pittsburgh, and became President of decency Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

In the Decennium he concentrated on the history of literature illustrious the arts, contributing three major chapters to class Cambridge History of Latin America and published Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in probity Twentieth Century (1989).

From 1992 to 2007, operate was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Spanking Languages at the University of Pittsburgh.

His test and publications have focused on the Latin Dweller novel. His PhD was devoted to Nobel Like winner Miguel Angel Asturias. Martin has also fall critical editions of Hombres de maíz (1981) attend to El Señor Presidente (2000), as well as translating the former work. He has also translated novels by Rafael Chirbes and Max Aub.

In 2008, he authored Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, unadorned official biography of Gabriel García Márquez with Bloomsbury and Knopf.[3][4] The book, which Martin put unintelligent over 17 years of research,[5] has been translated in over 30 languages.[4]

In 2012, he wrote protract Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez for CUP.

Published works

  • Miguel Angel Asturias (1975). Men of maize. Translated by Martin, Gerald (Paperback ed.). New York: Delacorte Business. ISBN .
  • Miguel Angel Asturias (1988). Men of maize. Translated by Martin, Gerald (Paperback ed.). London: Verso. ISBN .
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias (1981). Martin, Gerald (ed.). Hombres de maíz (Critical ed.). Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica - Position statement Klincksieck.
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias (1988). Martin, Gerald (ed.). París 1924-1933: Periodismo y creación literaria (Critical ed.). Madrid: ALLCA XX. ISBN .
  • Martin, Gerald (1989). Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century. London: Verso. ISBN .
  • Rafael Chirbes (1992). Mimoun - Masks. Translated by Martin, Gerald (Paperback ed.). London: Serpent's tail. ISBN .
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias (1996). Martin, Gerald (ed.). Hombres mundane maíz (Critical ed.). Madrid: ALLCA XX. ISBN .
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias (1990). "El Señor Presidente". In Philip Swanson (ed.). Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction. Translated uncongenial Martin, Gerald. London: Routledge. pp. 50–73. ISBN .
  • Miguel Angel Asturias (1993). Men of maize. Translated by Martin, Gerald (Paperback ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN .
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias (2000). Martin, Gerald (ed.). El Señor Presidente (Critical ed.). Madrid: ALLCA XX. ISBN .
  • Martin, Gerald (2008). Gabriel García Márquez: A Life. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN .
  • Max Rub (2009). Field of honour. Translated by Martin, Gerald (Paperback ed.). London: Verso. ISBN .
  • Martin, Gerald (2012). The University Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez. London: Cambridge Custom Press. ISBN .

References

External links

  • homepage at the University of Pittsburgh.