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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 · 2,475,918 ratings · 151,243 reviews · 981 distinct worksSimilar authors
One Hundred Years of Solitude

4.12 avg rating — 1,095,582 ratings — published 1967 — 1104 editions
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Love in the Time of Cholera

3.94 avg rating — 544,144 ratings — published 1985 — 631 editions
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

3.97 avg rating — 232,885 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions
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Memories of My Melancholy W...

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3.58 avg rating — 97,049 ratings — published 2004 — 239 editions
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Of Love and Other Demons

3.95 avg rating — 86,197 ratings — published 1994 — 325 editions
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El coronel no tiene quien l...

3.80 avg rating — 66,119 ratings — published 1961 — 114 editions
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En agosto nos vemos

3.56 avg rating — 53,435 ratings — published 2024 — 82 editions
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve St...

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4.03 avg rating — 28,851 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

3.86 avg rating — 26,471 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
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The General in His Labyrinth

3.69 avg rating — 25,705 ratings — published 1989 — 254 editions
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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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