Issue date: 22 Apr, 2015
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PERSONALITIES
Luis Aragonés, football player and manager, and Gabriel García Márquez, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982), are featured on the issue dedicated to Personalities. Both stamps are available in Premium Sheets.
Luis Aragonés (Madrid, 1938-2014) began his football career with Getafe at 15 years of age. In 1960 he made his First Division debut with Oviedo, which led to a long career that reached its peak when he became the national team manager and with the Spain’s win in the 2008 UEFA European Championship. He is a prominent figure in Spanish football who played for several years for Betis until he signed for Atlético de Madrid during the 1964-1965 season. With the red and white team he won three La Liga titles (1966, 1970 and 1973), two Spanish Cup titles (1966 and 1972) and was a top scorer for La Liga 1969-1970, tied with his teammate Eulogio Gárate and with Real Madrid player Amancio. He won eleven caps with the national team, until the 1974-1975 season when he stopped playing to become a manager for Atlético de Madrid. Years later he alternated between training for this club and others such as Betis, Barcelona, Espanyol, Sevilla and Turkey’s Fenerbahçe. Leading the national team, he won the 2008 UEFA European Championship and promoted the use of the name “la Roja” to refer to the Spanish team. This declaration of Luis Aragonés is featured on the Premium Sheet.
Gabriel García Márquez (Aracataca, Colombia, 1928-Mexico City, Mexico, 2014) studied law at the National University of Colombia, while beginning to work for the dailies “El Universal” and “El Espectador”. In 1955 he published his first novel, “Leaf Storm”, where story lines filled with fantasy are already evident. In 1967 his masterpiece and one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, was published. In it, he recreates the Buendía family saga in the imaginary town of Macondo, using a style called magical realism where he constantly mixes everyday realistic elements with magic and fantasy. In 1975 he published “The Autumn of the Patriarch”, his favourite work, followed by other well known titles such as “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “The General in His Labyrinth”. He lived his life between Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paris and Barcelona. In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. On the Premium Sheet one of the stamps is placed backwards, in reference to the phrase inscribed on the side.
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