Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm"; it mentions none of her other works—while providing her "bêtes noires" Morgan and Mary Webb with full entries. To Gibbons, "Cold Comfort Farm" became "That Book" or "You-Know-What", its title never mentioned. Despite her growing irritation and expressed distaste for it, the book continued to be lauded by successive generations of critics, Boston described it as "one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated". A more negative view of the book has been expressed by the literary critic Mary Beard, who considers it "a rather
Jorge Franco (writer) was released in January 2008 with a musical score directed by renowned Colombian singer Fonseca. In March 2014 Franco won the XVII edition of the international Alfaguara prize with his work "El mundo de afuera" (The world from outside). Gabriel García Márquez has stated about the artist that he "is one of the Colombian writers to whom I wish to pass the torch." Jorge Franco (writer) Jorge Franco Ramos (born 1962 in Medellín) is a writer from Colombia, known primarily for his novel "Rosario Tijeras," which has been adapted for film and television. Son of Olga Stella Ramos and Humberto