Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel García Márquez. The name that is synonymous with Magic Realism. Born in Colombia, the man was on the writing scene for a very long time and produced a solid body of work. In 1982, he gained the Nobel Prize in literature. His book One Hundred Years of Solitude has become the definitive work of Magic Realism and is required reading in schools, not to mention his most famous book.

His books deal with themes like solitude, eternal cycles, Banana Republics, political disputes and civil wars, themes present in his life and the life of his country with distressful frequence.

He also immersed himself into the cinema, helping directors to turn some of his books into films. He was a journalist by trade during The Forties and

Nowadays, García Márquez's fame has become a little awkward to Latin American writers, since it has generated the impression that all the literature of the zone is about angels, jungles and countryside. As a countermovement, the McOndo literary movement has been created by writers trying to present a more actualized Latin America. He’s still respected by those writers as a good writer, however.

He left writing as he was diagnosed of dementia on 2012, and died on 2014 at 87.

Works written by Gabriel García Márquez include:
  • Leaf Storm (1955)
  • No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
  • In Evil Hour (1962)
  • Big Mama's Funeral (1962, collection of short stories)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
  • The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother (1972)
  • The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
  • The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
  • Strange Pilgrims (1993, collection of short stories)
  • Of Love and Other Demons (1995)
  • Living to Tell the Tale (2002), his autobiography
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004), his last fiction book
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