Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist and journalist, the foremost practitioner of magical realism.
His masterwork *One Hundred Years of Solitude* (1967) chronicles 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 called Gabo.
- magical realismFiction blending miraculous and mundane
- solitudeState of being alone
- ColombiaEquatorial South American republic
- Latin American literatureBooks from Spanish-speaking Americas
- civil warsDomestic armed conflicts
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literary style
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cultural-geographic perspective
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