Gerald Martin is a prolific critic of Latin American fiction. He is particularly known for his work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and on the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, both of whom are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19 1899 – June 9 1974 was a Nobel Prize –winning Guatemalan Poet, Novelist, and Diplomat Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (born March 6 1927 is a Colombian The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred
Biography
Educated in Britain (with his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh), he subsequently taught for many years as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Works
- Martin, Gerald (1989). Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century. London: Verso. ISBN 0860912388.
- Martin, Gerald (1990). "Miguel Ángel Asturias: El Señor Presidente", in Philip Swanson (ed. ): Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction. London: Routledge, 50–73. ISBN 0415019966.
- Martin, Gerald (ed. ) (2000). El Señor Presidente, By Miguel Ángel Asturias, Critical ed. , Madrid: ALLCA XX. ISBN 84-89666-51-2.
External links
homepage at the University of Pittsburgh.