Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – 2014) — Colombia, writing in Spanish. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

“for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts” — The Nobel Committee citation

About Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist and central figure of Latin American magical realism. A journalist by training, affectionately known as "Gabo," he became the most widely read Spanish-language novelist of the twentieth century.

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