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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written 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 widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_MárquezRead the rest

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The Books

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What Readers Said

The most recent reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's books, newest first.

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @theodore_p
8 out of 10
The genealogy chart at the front is a confession of a design problem.
One Hundred Years of Solitude@theodore_p18 Aug 2026
2 readers agree with this review
One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @pageandvine
8 out of 10
I drew the family tree on the back of an envelope and still lost track
One Hundred Years of Solitude@pageandvine18 Jul 2026
One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink
9 out of 10
I kept a list of the Aurelianos in the back and lost it twice. Yellow butterflies, insomnia, ice; I'd take the ice chapter over most novels I read this year. Read it right through the drought, which probably helped, or possibly ruined it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude@mossandink22 Mar 2026

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @theodore_p

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @pageandvine

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @theodore_p

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @pageandvine

One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @mossandink