Gabriel García Márquez
ColombianLiterary FictionMagical Realismb. 1927 — d. 2014
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most significant authors of 20th-century literature. He is best known for pioneering and popularizing magical realism with works that blend the fantastic and the mundane to explore history, politics, memory and human experience in Latin America.
Awards
['Nobel Prize in Literature', 'Rómulo Gallegos Prize']
Notable Works
['One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Love in the Time of Cholera', 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold']
