The BA Receives Book Donations from Nobel Laureate Gabriel José García Márquez
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Alexandria—
The BA will receive on Thursday, 15 November 2007, Dr. Conrado Zuluaga, Colombian Writer and an accompanying delegation of Colombian intellectuals and men of letters to donate a group of book donation by Gabriel José de García Márquez, Nobel Laureate for Literature in 1982.
Ambassador Hagar El-Islambouly, Head of the BA External Relations Sector, will give an address welcoming the Colombian delegation, followed by an address by Conrado Zuluaga. The delegation will present book donations to the BA and will tour the Library including the Manuscripts Museum, the Antiquities Museum, Impressions of Alexandria Exhibition, the Internet Archive, Culturama, the Planetarium Science Center, and the Alexploratorium.
Gabriel José García Márquez was born in 1928 in Aracataca, North Columbia. He started his early education at a boarding school in Barranquilla and then moved 30 miles south to Bogotá and studied law and journalism at the National University of Colombia. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, India, and New York City. García Márquez's first major literary work was The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago), which he wrote as a newspaper series in 1955. His most commercially successful novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has sold more than 36 million copies worldwide. García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.