Gabriel García Márquez
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Gabriel García Márquez Colombian author and journalist who is the most celebrated Latin American novelist of the 20th century. His masterwork "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) is the defining text of magical realism, selling 50 million copies in 46 languages. Nobel Prize in Literature 1982. His friendship with Fidel Castro made him a controversial figure, but his literary legacy is unassailable.
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Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. 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.
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