NMLP P-009591 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel García Márquez · Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Jonathan Cape (UK) · 2005

First English-language edition of the novella, translated from the Spanish Memoria de mis putas tristes (2004). The Spanish-language original of 2004 precedes any English edition; among English editions the US Knopf and UK Cape both appeared in 2005, and the Knopf issue states 'First American Edition.'

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009591 for "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel García Márquez (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009591, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).