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 CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez delighted his language's guardians — as well as a king and eight current and former presidents — with a classic story about being a starving writer: how he managed to finish what many consider the greatest novel in Spanish since "Don Quixote."
That would be "One Hundred Years of Solitude," of which the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, opening its fourth congress in this colonial Caribbean port, released a special commemorative edition to honor Latin America's most famous living writer.
Hailed by a crowd of 1,200 with a standing ovation and thunderous applause as he entered the auditorium of Cartagena's convention center, the white-suited, mustachioed writer, who turned 80 this month, clasped his hands above his head like a prizefighter.
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