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Garcia Marquez popular in Iran, among Green Movement

Mir-Hossein Mousavi, one of the leaders of the Green Movement under house arrest, said, “If you want to understand my condition, read 'News of a Kidnapping' by Marquez.”
A worker holds a banner with the picture of late Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Bellas Artes palace in Mexico City April 20, 2014. Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87. Marquez died at his home in Mexico City, where he had returned from hospital last week after a bout of pneumonia. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO

The news of the death of the famous South American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez affected many Iranians who loved him because of his books. His popularity in Iran, however, is not simply due to his magical realism, but also has to do with politics.

Almost all of Garcia Marquez's famous novels are known in Iran. The famous Iranian translator Bahman Farzaneh introduced the king of Colombian literature to Iranian society nearly 40 years ago with "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

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