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Gabriel García Márquez


Born
in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
March 06, 1927

Died
April 17, 2014

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

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote 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 widespr
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Average rating: 3.99 · 2,480,729 ratings · 151,682 reviews · 985 distinct worksSimilar authors
One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.12 avg rating — 1,097,477 ratings — published 1967 — 1104 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.94 avg rating — 544,734 ratings — published 1985 — 27 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 233,574 ratings — published 1981 — 539 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.58 avg rating — 97,194 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.95 avg rating — 86,351 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.80 avg rating — 66,347 ratings — published 1961 — 114 editions
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En agosto nos vemos

3.56 avg rating — 53,874 ratings — published 2024
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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4.03 avg rating — 28,907 ratings — published 1992 — 50 editions
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 26,504 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth

3.69 avg rating — 25,748 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions
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Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez  (?)
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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Polls

Our genre for May is literary/general fiction. Please vote for the selection you would like to read. Poll will be up for one week. Last day to vote will be Tuesday, April 8.

A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
 
  3 votes, 23.1%

The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Carol Shields
 
  3 votes, 23.1%

Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
 
  2 votes, 15.4%

Bel Canto Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Ann Patchett
 
  2 votes, 15.4%

The Invisible Circus The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Alchemist The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Master The Master by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín
 
  1 vote, 7.7%

The Green Knight The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Golden Notebook The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Doris Lessing
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

All the Pretty Horses All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy
 
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