A conjurer of literary magic"-The New York Times
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca,
Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love
in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other
works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca,
Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of
work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of
short stories.
His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour
(1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the
Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the
Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News
of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories
of My Melancholy Whores (2004).
Praise for Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A conjurer of literary magic . .
. A giant of 20th-century literature."
--The New York Times "The most popular and perhaps best writer in
Spanish since Miguel de Cervantes."
--Carlos Fuentes
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