Gabriel García Márquez

The Colombian novelist who made magical realism the voice of Latin America's history.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1927 – 2014

language

Spanish

region

Aracataca, Colombia; Mexico City

notable works

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Core Principles & Analysis

• His grandmother's deadpan telling of impossible stories became his method.
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) detonated the Latin American Boom.
• He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez