Gerald Martin

{{For|other people with a similar name|Gerard Martin (disambiguation){{!}}Gerard Martin}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{tone|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Gerald Martin | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|2|22}} | birth_place = London<ref>{{Cite web |title=Library of Congress LCCN Permalink no2009112354 |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/no2009112354 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=lccn.loc.gov}}</ref> | education = University of Edinburgh UNAM | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Gerald Martin''' (born 22 February, 1944)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Library of Congress LCCN Permalink no2009112354 |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/no2009112354 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=lccn.loc.gov}}</ref> 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.

==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 == {{Citations needed|date=July 2024}} Martin taught for many years at Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he helped to organize the world's first undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies, which pioneered the student year abroad in Latin America. In 1984, he became the first Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Polytechnic sector. He went on to work for 25 years as the only English-speaking member of the Colección Archivos in Paris and in Pittsburgh, and became President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

In the 1980s he concentrated on the history of literature and the arts, contributing three major chapters to the Cambridge History of Latin America and published ''Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1989)''.

From 1992 to 2007, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh.

His research and publications have focused on the Latin American novel. His PhD was devoted to Nobel Prize winner Miguel Angel Asturias. Martin has also produced critical editions of ''Hombres de maíz'' (1981) and ''El Señor Presidente'' (2000), as well as translating the former work. He has also translated novels by Rafael Chirbes and Max Aub.

In 2008, he authored ''Gabriel García Márquez: A Life,'' an official biography of Gabriel García Márquez with Bloomsbury and Knopf.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davey |first=Edward |date=2022-10-21 |title=Gerald Martin on a life's work with García Márquez |url=https://thecitypaperbogota.com/features/a-lifes-work-on-gabo/ |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=The City Paper Bogotá |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gerald Martin in conversation – Forensic fantastic: A conversation between Oscar Guardiola-Rivera & Gerald Martin |url=https://writersmosaic.org.uk/content/gerald-martin-in-conversation-forensic-fantastic-a-conversation-between-oscar-guardiola-rivera-gerald-martin/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Writers Mosaic |language=en-US}}</ref> The book, which Martin put together over 17 years of research,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Berman |first=Paul |date=2009-06-05 |title=Telling the Tale |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/books/review/Berman-t.html |access-date=2024-08-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> has been translated in over 30 languages.<ref name=":0" />

In 2012, he wrote an Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez for CUP.

==Published works== *{{cite book | translator-last=Martin | translator-first= Gerald | title = Men of maize | url=https://archive.org/details/menofmaize0000astu | url-access=registration | author= Miguel Angel Asturias | edition = Paperback | location = New York | publisher = Delacorte Press |date= 1975 | isbn = 0440055830}} *{{cite book | translator-last=Martin | translator-first= Gerald | title = Men of maize | author= Miguel Angel Asturias | edition = Paperback | location = London | publisher = Verso |date= 1988 | isbn = 086091190X}} *{{cite book | editor-last=Martin | editor-first= Gerald| title = Hombres de maíz | author= Miguel Ángel Asturias | edition = Critical | location = Madrid | publisher = Fondo de Cultura Económica - Editorial Klincksieck |date= 1981}} *{{cite book | editor-last=Martin | editor-first= Gerald | title = París 1924-1933: Periodismo y creación literaria | author= Miguel Ángel Asturias | edition = Critical | location = Madrid | publisher = ALLCA XX |date= 1988 | isbn = 8489666008}} *{{cite book | last = Martin | first = Gerald | title = Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century | url = https://archive.org/details/journeysthroughl00mart | url-access = registration | publisher = Verso | location = London | year = 1989 | isbn = 0-86091-238-8 }} *{{cite book | translator-last= Martin | translator-first= Gerald | title= Mimoun - Masks | author= Rafael Chirbes | edition= Paperback | location= London | publisher= Serpent's tail | date= 1992 | isbn= 9781852422202 | url= https://archive.org/details/mimounchir00chir }} *{{cite book | editor-last=Martin | editor-first= Gerald| title = Hombres de maíz | author= Miguel Ángel Asturias | edition = Critical | location = Madrid | publisher = ALLCA XX |date= 1996 | isbn = 8489666202}} *{{cite book | translator-last = Martin | translator-first = Gerald | author = Miguel Ángel Asturias | chapter = ''El Señor Presidente'' | title = Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction | editor = Philip Swanson | location = London | publisher = Routledge | year = 1990 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/landmarksinmoder00phil/page/50 50–73] | isbn = 0-415-01996-6 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/landmarksinmoder00phil/page/50 }} *{{cite book | translator-last=Martin | translator-first= Gerald | title = Men of maize | author= Miguel Angel Asturias | edition = Paperback | location = Pittsburgh | publisher = University of Pittsburgh Press |date= 1993 | isbn = 0822955148}} *{{cite book | editor-last=Martin | editor-first= Gerald| title = El Señor Presidente | author= Miguel Ángel Asturias | edition = Critical | location = Madrid | publisher = ALLCA XX |date= 2000 | isbn = 84-89666-51-2}} *{{cite book | last = Martin | first = Gerald | title = Gabriel García Márquez: A Life |location = London |publisher= Bloomsbury | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7475-9476-5}} *{{cite book | translator-last= Martin | translator-first= Gerald | title= Field of honour | author= Max Aub | edition= Paperback | location= London | publisher= Verso | date= 2009 | isbn= 978-1844674008 | url= https://archive.org/details/fieldofhonour00aubm }} *{{cite book | last = Martin | first = Gerald | title = The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez |location = London |publisher= Cambridge University Press | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0521719926}}

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==External links== *[http://www.pitt.edu/~hispan/faculty/martin.html homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111163140/http://www.pitt.edu/~hispan/faculty/martin.html |date=11 January 2009 }} at the University of Pittsburgh.

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