Gabriel García Márquez
Author / playwright
Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magic realism movement in Latin-American literature.
He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist.
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Main works in Spanish:
La hojarasca
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
La mala hora
Los funerales de la Mamá Grande
Cien anos de soledad
Relato de un náufrago
La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada
Chile, el golpe y los gringos
Ojos de perro azul
Cuando era feliz e indocumentado
El otono del patriarca
Todos los cuentos
Obra periodística completa
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve: el verano feliz de la señora Forbes
Viva Sandino
Noticia de un secuestro
El asalto: el operativo con el FSLN se lanzo al mundo
El amor en los tiempos de cólera
El general en su laberinto
Doce cuentos peregrinos
Vivir para contarla (memoirs)
Main works in English:
Leaf Storm, and Other Stories
No One Writes to the Colonel
An Evil Hour
Big Mama's Funeral
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Collected Stories
Love in the Time of Cholera
Collected Novellas
The General in his Labyrinth Living to Tell the Tale (memoirs)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Crónica de una muerte anunciada
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Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
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El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
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El mar del tiempo perdido
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La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera
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La Cándida Eréndira
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De bares y cantinas
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| Year | Category | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | None | Nobel Prize | Winner |