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Gabriel García Márquez

1927-2014 · Colombian novelist and journalist, central figure of the Latin American Boom and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Nobel Prize in Literature 1982

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José García Márquez (1927–2014) was born in Aracataca, Colombia, and raised largely by his maternal grandparents. He worked as a journalist in Cartagena, Barranquilla and Bogotá, lived for years in Europe and Mexico, and published fiction from the 1950s onward. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad, 1967) made him internationally famous; later novels include The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

1967 (Spanish, Cien años de soledad); English 1970 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the rise and fall of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they found in a swampy Colombian wilderness. José Arcadio Buendía and his cousin Úrsula Iguarán leave their native village after a quarrel that ends in a killing, and after months of wandering they settle where José Arcadio dreams of a city of mirrors.

medium medical relevanceMemory / TimeFamilyIsolation / Alienation