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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 · 2,010,642 ratings · 105,137 reviews · 818 distinct worksSimilar authors
One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.11 avg rating — 915,470 ratings — published 1967 — 957 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.93 avg rating — 481,854 ratings — published 1985 — 275 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 175,069 ratings — published 1981 — 237 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.59 avg rating — 82,179 ratings — published 2004 — 225 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.97 avg rating — 70,904 ratings — published 1994 — 292 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.79 avg rating — 47,259 ratings — published 1961 — 335 editions
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The Story of a Shipwrecked ...

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3.83 avg rating — 26,229 ratings — published 1955 — 208 editions
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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4.04 avg rating — 22,962 ratings — published 1992 — 213 editions
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 22,200 ratings — published 1975 — 279 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth

3.69 avg rating — 21,794 ratings — published 1989 — 237 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

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