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Gerald Martin (born 22 February, 1944)^[2] is an English literary critic whose work focuses on Latin American fiction.

He is particularly known for his work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, both Nobel Prize for Literature winners.

His 2008 book, Gabriel García Márquez. A Life, was the first full biography of García Márquez to be published in English.

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Early life and education

Gerald Martin studied Spanish, French, and Portuguese at Bristol in 1965 and received his PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 1970. After spending a year in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with VSO (1965-1966), he later carried out postgraduate work in UNAM, Mexico (1968-1969) and, as a Harkness Fellowship recipient, was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (1971-1972).

Career

Martin taught for many years at Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he helped to organize the world's first undergrad