Gabriel García Márquez

Author profile

born

March 06, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

gender

male

website

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism

influences

G.K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, GÃ¼nter Grass, F ...more

About this author

edit data

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain re...more

combine editions
Books by Gabriel García Márquez

Average rating: 3.84 · 447,279 ratings · 21,678 reviews · 170 distinct works

	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 253,550 ratings — published 1967 — 110 editions	My rating:
	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 113,929 ratings — published 1985 — 152 editions	My rating:
	Chronicle of a Death Foretold 3.90 avg rating — 18,802 ratings — published 1981 — 104 editions	My rating:
	Memories of My Melancholy Whores 3.49 avg rating — 14,559 ratings — published 2004 — 78 editions	My rating:
	Of Love and Other Demons 3.92 avg rating — 9,208 ratings — published 1994 — 99 editions	My rating:
	The General in His Labyrinth 3.56 avg rating — 4,406 ratings — published 1989 — 54 editions	My rating:
	No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories 3.76 avg rating — 3,445 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.73 avg rating — 3,825 ratings — published 1971 — 67 editions	My rating:
	Collected Stories 4.14 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 1978 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Strange Pilgrims 3.99 avg rating — 3,063 ratings — published 1991 — 58 editions	My rating:

More books by Gabriel García Márquez…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

1,085 people liked it

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life-memories

927 people liked it

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth , identity , life , self

887 people liked it

See all Gabriel García Márquez's quotes »

Polls

what would you like to read for october

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

3 votes 37.5%

Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

3 votes 37.5%

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

1 vote 12.5%

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

1 vote 12.5%

The Smell of Apples: A Novel by Mark Behr

0 votes 0.0%

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez

0 votes 0.0%

8 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL WINTER CHALLENGE - 2008/2009	2174	3455	Mar 04, 2009 07:03am
Cyber Book Club: Having Fun Already (50+ Book Challenge)	29	105	May 04, 2009 02:18pm
Literary Fiction ...: Gabriel García Márquez	1	27	Jun 05, 2009 10:39pm
Goodreads Librarians: Translation and Combining help	188	491	Jul 21, 2009 01:45pm
The Next Best Boo...: Top 3 Most Frustrating Novels	172	1095	Sep 20, 2009 08:17am

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Gabriel to Goodreads.

Gabriel's Fans (4725)

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez