Letter: Writing in English

Saturday 21 August 1993 23:02 BST

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I WAS intrigued to discover from the Sunday Review (15 August) that Gabriel Garca Marquez now writes in English. Or are we to assume that his famously 'magical' style has so thoroughly permeated reality that his texts now transmute themselves spontaneously from Spanish? I think we hard-working, underpaid and overlooked translators should be told before fading back into the oblivion to which fate and literary editors seem determined to assign us.

David Chowcat, Brighton

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