They exchanged just a few letters and met just once—for drinks at a Manhattan hotel one time that Gabriel García Márquez was passing through town. But Gregory Rabassa’s connection to the revered Colombian author, who died on April 17 at age 87, was nevertheless intimate, indelible—and unique: He is the translator who introduced the English-speaking world to the future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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