Knopf to Publish New Novel by Gabriel García Márquez

Alfred A. Knopf will publish Until August, an unpublished work written by the Nobel Prize–winning writer Gabriel García Márquez before his death in 2014, next year. Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive v-p and publisher, acquired North American rights from the Carmen Balcells Literary Agency in Barcelona.

The book will be translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean, with Diana Tejerina Miller, Knopf v-p and executive editor, to edit. The book will be published by Knopf in hardcover and e-book, and in audio by Penguin Random House, as part of a simultaneous global publication in 2024. It will be published in trade paperback by Vintage a year later.

García Márquez’s sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, said of the work: “Until August was the result of our father’s last effort to continue creating against all odds. Reading it once again almost ten 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.”

In a statement, Reagan Arthur said: “Gabriel García Márquez is one of the world’s most beloved and acclaimed storytellers, and it’s been Knopf’s great honor to publish him: we’re thrilled by the opportunity to bring this re-discovered masterpiece to readers.”