Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. [1]
Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez
Books
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile 1993
- 100 Years of Solitude 2016
- Spanish Short Stories 1 — Cuentos hispánicos 1 1966
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1984
- Collected Stories 1984
- The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition 2015
- The Short Story 1987
- The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition 2006
- Until August 2024
- The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition 2002
- El ahogado más hermoso del mundo 1995
- Love in the Time of Cholera