Which novel by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author author was Hilary Simon's painting used as the cover?
Hilary Simon Hilary Simon is a British-born silk painter. She is known for her development of techniques on silk and her highly unusual choice of subject, which in recent years has been strongly influenced by Central America. Simon is renowned for her collaborations. One of her more notable paintings, "Rice Fields", was used in 2007 as a limited edition collectors cover for "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez.
The Stone Raft The Stone Raft (Portuguese: A Jangada de Pedra ) is a novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago. It was written in 1986, and was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1994. The premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.