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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 · 2,580,189 ratings · 162,744 reviews · 991 distinct worksSimilar authors
One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.12 avg rating — 1,137,727 ratings — published 1967 — 1102 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.94 avg rating — 558,619 ratings — published 1985 — 120 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 247,566 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.57 avg rating — 100,198 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.95 avg rating — 89,608 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.80 avg rating — 70,764 ratings — published 1961 — 73 editions
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En agosto nos vemos

3.54 avg rating — 61,499 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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4.03 avg rating — 30,175 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 27,404 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions
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Relato de un náufrago

3.88 avg rating — 26,718 ratings — published 1970 — 10 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 2020 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, 31 pages, 1836
 
  65 votes, 22.5%

 
  62 votes, 21.5%

 
  55 votes, 19.0%

Under a Glass Bell by Anaïs Nin, 101 pages, 1944
 
  34 votes, 11.8%

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages, 1872
 
  27 votes, 9.3%

Youth by Joseph Conrad, 30 pages, 1898
 
  25 votes, 8.7%

The Star-Title Story by Arthur C. Clarke, 4-6 pages, 1955
 
  21 votes, 7.3%

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