Abstract
This article explores three volumes published in Latin America in the 1990s underthe banner ‘Gabriel García Márquez’s Scriptwriting Workshop’. These volumescompile transcripts of the workshops for Latin American screenwriters that the Nobel Laureate taught at the International Cinema and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, in the 1980s and 1990s. García Márquez’s script-writing workshops were practice-based and production-oriented, generating filmand television scripts that were subsequently brought to the screen. Therefore, whilethese workshop texts were disseminated throughout Latin America as manuals foraspiring screenwriters, these collected transcripts also disclose processes of creativecollaboration taking shape within localized industrial contexts. Drawing on contem- porary research on screenwriting manuals, critical industrial practices and forms ofcorporate and situational authorship, this article explores García Márquez’s work-shop as a window into the craft training of screenwriters and the development of forms of collective screenwriting emerging at the intersection of literary and cinemamovements in Latin America