No One Writes to the Colonel
First edition | |
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| Original title | El coronel no tiene quien le escriba |
| Translator | J. S. Bernstein |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Aguirre Editor, Medellin |
Publication date | 1961 |
| Publication place | Colombia |
Published in English | 1 Sep 1968 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-06-011417-7 (hardback first Eng. edition) |
| OCLC | 234241843 |
No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a novella written by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so that people would read No One Writes to the Colonel.
The novella was written between 1956 and 1957 while the author was living in Paris in the Hotel des Trois Colleges and was first published in 1958, in Mito Revista Bimestral de Cultura v. IV no. 19 (May-June 1958), with first separate publication in 1961.