GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. An author, journalist and screenwriter, his most famous work is Cien años de soledad, which is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the magical realism genre and has become a classic of world literature.

Garcia Marquez is also the author of La hojarasca, El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba,  La increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada, El otoño del patriarca, Crónica de una muerte anunciada and El amor en los tiempos del cólera, aong other works.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Links:

http://www.literatura.us/garciamarquez/index.html

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

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