On that program she spoke with writers from around the world, including Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Latin America's Premier novelists, and Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1994. Garcia-Marquez is best known for his classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and Fuentes, a member of NPQ's advisory board, for his many novels that have included The Death of Artemio Cruz and Terra Nostra. Oe's most well-known works are Hiroshima Notes and Nip the Buds , Shoot the Kids .
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