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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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One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.11 avg rating — 935,847 ratings — published 1967 — 988 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.93 avg rating — 490,332 ratings — published 1985 — 623 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 181,240 ratings — published 1981 — 498 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.59 avg rating — 83,922 ratings — published 2004 — 59 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.97 avg rating — 72,748 ratings — published 1994 — 81 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.79 avg rating — 49,235 ratings — published 1961 — 338 editions
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The Story of a Shipwrecked ...

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3.83 avg rating — 27,238 ratings — published 1955 — 214 editions
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 22,732 ratings — published 1975 — 149 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth

3.69 avg rating — 22,340 ratings — published 1989 — 253 editions
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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

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