his inspirations for this novel. Film, TV or theatrical adaptations A motion picture based on the novella was made in 1999. Directed by Arturo Ripstein, it stars Fernando Luján as the colonel. A feature film based on the novella and titled Only Death Comes for Sure was released in 1993. The film was directed by Marina Tsurtsumiya. Cultural references The Riga restaurant/club Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta is named after the Latvian title of the story, which also spawned a bar of the same name in Toronto. The Russian rock band Bi-2 had written the song Полковнику никто не пишет (Russian translation for No One Writes to the Colonel) that was included in the soundtrack of the Russian film Brother 2. Release details 1958, "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba," in Mito Revista Bimestral de Cultura v. IV no. 19 (May-June 1958) 1961, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (novella), Aguirre Editor (Medellin, Colombia) 1968, USA, Harper & Row , Pub date 1 September 1968, hardback (Eng. trans 1st edition) 1996, UK, Penguin Books , Pub date 29 February 1996, paperback (as No One Writes to the Colonel) 1976, USA, HarperPerennial , Pub date ? August 1979, paperback (as No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories) References 1968 short story collections Colombian novellas Harper & Row books Novels by Gabriel García Márquez Novels set in Colombia Short story collections by Gabriel García Márquez