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Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo

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Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" brought Latin American literature to the forefront of the global imagination and earned García Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. What makes the novel so remarkable? Francisco Díez-Buzo investigates.

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Francisco Díez-Buzo
  • Director Silvia Prietov
  • Narrator Addison Anderson
  • Animator William Cifuentes, Jorge Moyano, Diego Doncel
  • Storyboard Artist William Cifuentes, Gustavo Adolfo García
  • Producer Edi Jimenez
  • Designer William Pineda
  • Art Director William Pineda
  • Compositor Jefferson Vargas
  • Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
  • Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
  • Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott, Elizabeth Cox
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
  • Fact-Checker Brian Gutierrez

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