Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer of the 20th century. His most notable work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Lifetime: 6 March 1927 • 17 April 2014
• Main genre: Magical realism
• Literary movement: Latin American Boom
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