Wednesday, March 28, 2007

80 years of García Márquez: tributes mark writer's birthday

...in August 1967 he had only 53 pesos to send his masterpiece to Buenos Aires. It cost 82 pesos....so he sent half the manuscript

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Garcia Maquez es mi autor favorito, es un gran escritor.

miss tango said...

What would that be equivalent to the peso today?

yanqui mike said...

Good question, Ms. T! He's Venezuelan... so I assumed that he was mailing it from Venezuela to an editor/publisher in BsAs. Hmmm...the '56 Venezuelan Peso...what was it going for?