Viking lands Márquez's unpublished novel, En Agosto Nos Vemos

Viking has seized Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished novel, En Agosto Nos Vemos, loosely translated as We’ll See Each Other Again in August.

Isabel Wall, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in an exclusive submission from the Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells in Barcelona. Viking will publish the book in hardback, e-book and audio as part of a simultaneous global publication in 2024, with Penguin Random House Spain publishing in all Spanish-speaking countries except Mexico. 

Márquez, the Colombian Nobel Prize winner, is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential authors of the last century. Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, said: “En Agosto Nos Vemos was the result of our father’s last effort to continue creating against all odds.

"Reading it once again almost 10 years after his death, we discovered that the text had many highly enjoyable merits and nothing that prevents us from delighting in the most outstanding aspects of Gabo’s work: his capacity for invention, his poetic language, his captivating storytelling, his understanding of humankind and his affection for our experiences and misadventures, especially in love, possibly the main theme of all his work.”

Wall added: “At Viking we are immensely proud to be Gabriel García Márquez’s long-time publisher and it is an exceptional honour to be bringing this re-discovered masterpiece into the world in 2024, 10 years after the author’s death.”