🇨🇴 Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian Nobel laureate; father of magical realism; greatest Spanish-language author

Colombia 1927 Famous Authors

✍️ Key Facts

Born 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia; Nobel Prize in Literature 1982

100 Years of Solitude (1967): 50M+ copies sold; revolutionised world literature with magical realism

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) are other masterworks

"Gabo" wrote the opening sentence of 100 Years of Solitude in his head while driving — turned the car around and wrote the novel