Gabriel García Márquez
1927-03-06 – 2014-04-17
461 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. [1]
Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez
Also published as: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
Most-read books
Cien años de soledad
4.1 · 1967 · 1.9K want to read
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
4.2 · 1985 · 823 want to read
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
4.1 · 1980 · 544 want to read
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
3.9 · 1961 · 162 want to read
El general en su laberinto
3.7 · 1989 · 115 want to read
Del amor y otros demonios
4.3 · 1994 · 115 want to read
Relato de un náufrago
4.6 · 1970 · 121 want to read
Doce cuentos peregrinos
4.6 · 1992 · 96 want to read
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
4 · 2021 · 87 want to read
Memoria de mis putas tristes
3.8 · 2004 · 69 want to read
Otoño Del Patriarca
4.3 · 1973 · 57 want to read
La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada
4.8 · 1972 · 56 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
5 · 1991 · 49 want to read
En agosto nos vemos
4 · 2024 · 54 want to read
La hojarasca
4.3 · 1954 · 46 want to read
La mala hora
4.4 · 1962 · 37 want to read
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
2010 · 42 want to read
Noticia de un secuestro
3.5 · 1996 · 32 want to read
Vivir para contarla
2.5 · 2002 · 33 want to read
Los funerales de la Mamá Grande
1962 · 28 want to read
Memoria de mis putas tristes
2009 · 23 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
4 · 1994 · 25 want to read
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
4 · n.d. · 22 want to read
Ojos de perro azul
1972 · 22 want to read