Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Latin American writer who gained worldwide readership with his brand of ‘magical realism’. He illuminated the unique style of conventional storytelling with vivid fantasy.
Marquez was born in 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, in Colombia. He is indisputably one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
He was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1982 Nobel Prize in literature. Garcia Marquez began his career as a journalist, and became a renowned one too.
Marquez was just 19-years-old when his first novel ‘Leaf Storm’ was published. His most famous works are ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘The Autumn of the Patriarch’, and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. Among them, ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, is considered as a masterpiece of magical realism.
He died on 17th April, 2014 in Mexico.
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