Editing No One Writes to the Colonel (section)

{{Short description|1961 novella by Gabriel García Márquez}}
{{About|the 1961 novella|the 1999 film|No One Writes to the Colonel (film)}}

{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name         = No One Writes to the Colonel
| title_orig   = El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
| orig_lang_code = es
| translator   = [[J. S. Bernstein]]
| image        = File:El coronel no tiene quien le escriba.jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
| cover_artist = 
| country      = [[Colombia]]
| language     = Spanish
| series       = 
| genre        = 
| publisher    = Aguirre Editor, Medellin
| release_date = 1961
| english_pub_date = 1 Sep 1968
| media_type   = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages        = 
| isbn = 0-06-011417-7
| isbn_note = (hardback first Eng. edition)
| oclc= 234241843
| preceded_by  = 
| followed_by  = 
}}

'''''No One Writes to the Colonel''''' ({{langx|es|El coronel no tiene quien le escriba|links=no}}) is a [[novella]] written by the [[Colombia]]n 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''.<ref>"Yo creo que es mi mejor libro, sin lugar a dudas. Además, y esto no es una boutade, tuve que escribir ''Cien años de soledad'' para que
leyeran ''El coronel no tiene quien le escriba''." in Rentería Mantilla, Alfonso, ed. ''García Márquez habla de García Márquez''. Bogotá: Rentería Editores, 1979.</ref>

The novella was written between 1956 and 1957 while the author was living in Paris in the [[Hotel des Trois Colleges]]<ref>Martin, Gerald (2008) : ''Gabriel García Márquez: A Life'', Penguin. {{ISBN|978-0143171829}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_timeline.html |title=Garcia Marquez - Timeline |publisher=Themodernword.com |access-date=2012-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321031345/http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_timeline.html |archive-date=2012-03-21 }}</ref>