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Gabriel García Márquez
AuthorBooks · Second hand1927-2014
Colombian novelist, journalist and screenwriter, Nobel laureate in Literature 1982, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, leading figure of magical realism.
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Birth
1927
Death
2014
First book
1955
Years writing
71
He was born in Aracataca, Colombia, the village that inspired Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Before his literary breakthrough he worked as a journalist in Cartagena, Bogotá and Paris.
He wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 in some 18 months of intense seclusion in Mexico City.
He won the Nobel Prize in 1982 and wore a white liqui-liqui suit at the Stockholm ceremony.
He had a long friendship with Fidel Castro and spent his final years in Mexico City, where he died in 2014.