Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian author and Nobel laureate whose One Hundred Years of Solitude defined magical realism and influenced generations of world writers. His sweeping masterwork created the mythical town of Macondo to stand for all of Latin America.
Works
- One Hundred Years of SolitudeMagical realist saga of a town and family cursed to repeat itself cyclically
- Love in the Time of CholeraRomantic novel of two lovers reunited in old age during epidemic times
- The Autumn of the PatriarchExperimental portrait of an aging dictator's final days told in fragments
- No One Writes to the ColonelNovella of an old colonel waiting for his veteran pension in poverty
- Chronicle of a Death ForetoldNovella of a murder foretold through a small town's collective knowledge