Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist and journalist, widely considered the foremost practitioner of magical realism.

His 1967 novel *One Hundred Years of Solitude* traces generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo, blending the fantastical with the mundane.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Often referred to simply as Gabo.

civil warDomestic armed conflict
rainWater dropping from clouds
solitudeState of being alone
bananaCurved tropical fruit
tropical heatHigh temperatures near equator

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literary style

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Cormac McCarthy · Anton Chekhov · Albert Camus · Samuel Beckett · minimalism

cultural-political orientation

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Saul Bellow · Jorge Luis Borges

geographic-literary tradition

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Philip Roth · Ian McEwan · Rudyard Kipling

Family

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