As longtime readers know, I have my ... doubts about 'literary' agents but, no question, some of them have been enormously influential, and leading Spanish agent Carmen Balcells -- who handled Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Carlos Fuentes, among many others -- was certainly among them; see, for example, Rachel Donadio's piece in The New York Times, Carmen Balcells, Agent to Latin America's Literary Lions, Dies at 85.
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