Gabriel García Márquez






Gabriel García Márquez

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born
March 06, 1927

gender
male

place of birth
Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism

influences
G. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Günter Grass, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Juan Rulfo, Sophocles, Virginia Woolf


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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 even...more




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One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator), Bahman Farzaneh بهمن فرزانه (Translator)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,590 ratings — published 1967
154 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,915 ratings — published 1985
102 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.88 — 4,917 ratings — published 1373
65 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy Whor... Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.54 — 4,616 ratings — published 2004
50 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons Of Love and Other Demons
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.92 — 2,337 ratings — published 1994
62 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth The General in His Labyrinth
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.55 — 1,592 ratings — published 1985
49 editions
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No One Writes to the Colonel:... No One Writes to the Colonel: and Other Stories
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.73 — 1,417 ratings — published 1971
7 editions
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The Autumn of the Patriarch The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 3.67 — 1,242 ratings — published 1369
50 editions
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Collected Stories Collected Stories
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 4.12 — 924 ratings — published 1968
10 editions
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Strange Pilgrims Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel García Márquez
avg rating 4.03 — 767 ratings — published 1992
39 editions
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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
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"...Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
Gabriel García Márquez
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