Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in 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 Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
Booksin order of publication:
Novels
In Evil Hour (1962)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
Of Love and Other Demons (1993)
Until August (2024)
Novellas
Leaf Storm (1955)
No One Writes to the Colonel (1958)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004)
Short stories
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (1968)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1968)
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother (1972)
Short story collections
Big Mama’s Funeral (1962, reprinted 2005)
Innocent Eréndira, and other stories (1978)
Collected Stories (1984)
Strange Pilgrims (1993)
Non-fiction
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)
The Solitude of Latin America (1982)
The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza)
Clandestine in Chile (1986)
Changing the History of Africa: Angola and Namibia (1991, with David Deutschmann)
News of a Kidnapping (1997)
A Country for Children (1998)
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
The Scandal of the Century: Selected Journalistic Writings, 1950–1984 (2019)
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