Gabriel García Márquez

Wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, popularizing magical realism, defining the Latin American literary "Boom", and winning the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Major Works

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Impact Analysis

García Márquez brought Latin American literature to the centre of the world stage and made magical realism one of the most influential modes of modern storytelling.

Historical influence score: 81/100

Accomplishments for Gabriel García Márquez are being compiled.