
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century. Known affectionately as “Gabo,” he is best recognized for pioneering the literary style of magical realism, blending the extraordinary with the everyday to explore themes of love, solitude, and the human condition. His landmark novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967, is considered a masterpiece of world literature and has been translated into dozens of languages.
Born in Aracataca, a small town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, García Márquez drew heavily on his childhood and the folklore of his region to craft his richly imaginative works. His other celebrated novels include Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and The Autumn of the Patriarch. García Márquez’s writing earned him numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, awarded for his unique storytelling that combines myth, history, and social commentary
- Novelist
- 1927–2014
- Male
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- What if your family’s destiny was written in a language only the dead can read? In the fever-dream town of Macondo, the Buendía clan chases love, power, and forbidden knowledge across generations, their lives spiraling through miracles and curses—golden fish, prophecies in ice, and a child born with the tail of a pig. But as the ghosts of their past grow louder and the walls between reality and myth crumble, one question haunts their bloodline: Can a soul ever outrun its fate, or are we all prisoners of the stories we inherit?
- Originally Published: 1967
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2024
- Pages: 422
- Genre: Novel, Magical Realism, Family saga, Epic Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0241968581
- Access: Members