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Gabriel García Márquez


Colombia (1927 - 2014)

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
 

Awards: LA Times (2005), Nobel (1982)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Books containing stories by Gabriel García Márquez
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40 Short Stories (2004)
A Portable Anthology
edited by
Beverly Lawn
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Nightshade (2000)
20th Century Ghost Stories
edited by
Robert Phillips

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Awards
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Memories of My Melancholy Whores
1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Love in the Time of Cholera
1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

Award nominations
2007 Oprah's Book Club Award (nominee) : Love in the Time of Cholera
2004 Oprah's Book Club Award (nominee) : One Hundred Years of Solitude
1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Chronicle of a Death Foretold


Gabriel García Márquez recommends
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Purgatory (2011)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
"Here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."
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Butterfly's Tongue (2000)
Manuel Rivas
"A perfect marriage of film and literature."

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