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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 · 2,505,339 ratings · 153,835 reviews · 981 distinct worksSimilar authors
One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.12 avg rating — 1,107,540 ratings — published 1967 — 1106 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.94 avg rating — 547,823 ratings — published 1985 — 22 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 236,938 ratings — published 1981 — 27 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.58 avg rating — 97,995 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.95 avg rating — 87,143 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.80 avg rating — 67,486 ratings — published 1961 — 114 editions
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En agosto nos vemos

3.56 avg rating — 56,022 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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4.03 avg rating — 29,214 ratings — published 1992
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 26,695 ratings — published 1975 — 65 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth

3.69 avg rating — 25,946 ratings — published 1989 — 263 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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September 2022 Short Story/Novell Poll

Flush by Virginia Woolf, 115 pages, 1935
 
  54 votes, 26.7%

 
  51 votes, 25.2%

 
  32 votes, 15.8%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 48 pages, 1909
 
  26 votes, 12.9%

Phèdre by Jean Racine, 52 pages, 1677
 
  19 votes, 9.4%

Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever, 21 pages, 1951
 
  13 votes, 6.4%

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