NMLP P-009634 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa) · Jonathan Cape, London (first English); Alfred A. Knopf, New York (first US) · 1982 (Cape, first English); 1983 (Knopf, first US)

The world first is the Spanish 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' (Editorial La Oveja Negra, Bogotá, 1981). The 1982 Jonathan Cape London edition is the first edition in English; the 1983 Knopf is the first US edition, published the following year.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009634 for "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009634, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).