Duncan Fallowell

What’s to become of Pedro Friedeberg’s letters?

Duncan Fallowell has delighted for many years in the letters of his Mexican friend Pedro Friedeberg, but wonders what on earth to do with them

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issue 11 April 2015

The year 2015 has been designated one of Anglo-Mexican amity, with celebrations planned in both countries by both governments. But it looks as though one name will be missing from the list: Pedro Friedeberg’s. ‘Who?’ you may ask. Well, in 1982 I was in Mexico City to interview Gabriel García Márquez after he’d won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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