Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel Prize-Winning Author of One Hundred Years
April 17, 2014
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist. Born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia, he began as a journalist.
His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) became a landmark of magical realism and has sold over 50 million copies. He also wrote Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
He was nicknamed Gabo. Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City on April 17, 2014, at age 87.
Achievements: Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).
Birth: March 6, 1927 - Aracataca, Colombia.
Profession: Novelist.
Interesting Facts: One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold over 50 million copies.