My Dots for Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Very few authors are iconic enough to be mobbed when they appear in public. It’s sort of comforting to know that people acknowledge Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the artist that he is.

Quoted: Gabriel Garcia Marquez was mobbed Monday when he appeared at a luncheon in Cartagena, Colombia, during a meeting of the Inter American Press Association.

Quoted: Garcia Marquez, whose Hundred Years of Solitude is considered by many as a Spanish-language classic, is a national icon in his native Colombia. People treated him like a museum piece as he dined with journalist friends in a big tent at the event. Dozens jostled with police officers standing guard to have their pictures taken with him and to have books autographed.