Gerald Martin

Gerald Martin is a prolific critic of Latin American fiction. He is particularly known for his work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and on the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, both of whom are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Biography

Educated in Britain (with his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh), he subsequently taught for many years as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Works

*cite book | last = Martin | first = Gerald | title = Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century | publisher = Verso | location = London | year = 1989 | isbn = 0860912388
*cite book | last = Martin | first = Gerald |chapter = Miguel Ángel Asturias: "El Señor Presidente" | title = Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction | editor = Philip Swanson (ed.) | location = London | publisher = Routledge | year = 1990 | pages = 50–73 | isbn = 0415019966
*cite book | last=Martin | first= Gerald (ed.) | title = El Señor Presidente | others= By Miguel Ángel Asturias | edition = Critical ed. | location = Madrid | publisher = ALLCA XX | year = 2000 |date= 2000 | isbn = 84-89666-51-2

External links

[http://www.pitt.edu/~hispan/faculty/martin.html homepage] at the University of Pittsburgh.