Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

The solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to research that shows Gabriel Garcia Marquez has overtaken Miguel de Cervantes to become the most translated Spanish-language writer of the century so far.

However, the genius who gave the world Don Quixote - and with him the first modern novel and a byword for impractical idealism - can take comfort in the fact that he remains the most translated writer in Spanish over the past eight decades.