Mateo GarcÃa Elizondo at his studio in Mexico City last month. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Observer
The writer â and grandson of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez â on Mexican folklore, his early love of horror and learning to live with the familyâs literary legacy
Sat 22 May 2021 13.00 EDT
Mateo GarcÃa Elizondo, a 34-year-old writer from Mexico, may come from literary stock â his paternal grandfather is Colombian heavyweight Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and his maternal grandfather is Mexican literary giant Salvador Elizondo â but he is carving his own path at the forefront of a burgeoning scene in Spanish language literature. He has published a novel as well as written scripts for films and graphic novels. His writing is also included in Grantaâs
19 April 2021 2:04pm
PAOK achieved a victory of great importance at Toumba Stadium during the derby against Olympiacos thanks to Serbian striker Andrija Živković, who scored the two goals in the 49th and 63rd minutes.
It was the calmest derby for many years between the two teams, characterised in the first half by the referee who dealt a yellow card in the 39th minute to Olympiacos’ Melburnian export Avraam Papadopoulos for prolonged marking on the back of El Kantouri.
The lack of substantial scoring motivation on the part of Olympiacos, the absence of fans from the stands and the inability of PAOK to take a dominant role in the game, transformed this classic derby into a simple championship game, with unquestionable quality, but without the passion and intensity of the derby between these two opponents.
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What’s your earliest memory? My earliest memory is of a man’s white patent shoes and white linen pants stained with blood. That was when my father accidentally dropped my infant brother on the stone pavement. Who are your heroes? Robin Hood was my childhood hero. Today it is, of course, Olga Murray, the founder of Nepal Youth Foundation. She is a 96-year-old young lady who wears tennis shoes and who has saved thousands of Nepalese children from exploitation and starvation. You should google her. What book last changed your thinking? That was a short novel by Mateo García Elizondo,