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Gabriel García Márquez

Born

in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

March 06, 1927

Died

April 17, 2014

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism

Influences

William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Juan Rulfo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest ...more

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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 ...more

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Gabriel García Márquez’s books

Average rating: 3.99 · 2,580,383 ratings · 162,770 reviews · 991 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,137,808 ratings — published 1967 — 228 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 558,650 ratings — published 1985 — 648 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of a Death Foretold 3.97 avg rating — 247,592 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 100,202 ratings — published 2004 — 240 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Love and Other Demons 3.95 avg rating — 89,613 ratings — published 1994 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba 3.80 avg rating — 70,771 ratings — published 1961 — 207 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En agosto nos vemos 3.54 avg rating — 61,515 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 30,176 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.86 avg rating — 27,404 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relato de un náufrago 3.88 avg rating — 26,724 ratings — published 1970 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Polls

January 2015 New School Classic Poll

1985, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, 348 pages

16 votes, 28.6%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

7 votes, 12.5%

1933, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 315 pages

7 votes, 12.5%

1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

6 votes, 10.7%

1951, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 160 pages

5 votes, 8.9%

1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages

4 votes, 7.1%

1958, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

3 votes, 5.4%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

3 votes, 5.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

2 votes, 3.6%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

2 votes, 3.6%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

1 vote, 1.8%

1928, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, 300 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1947, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 107 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1958, The Bell by Iris Murdoch, 320 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

56 total votes

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