Novelist · 1927 – 2014

Gabriel García Márquez

Little-Known Facts

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages.
  • He began his career as a journalist and always considered reporting central to his craft.

Myths & Misconceptions

What is magical realism?

It is a style, which García Márquez made famous, in which magical or impossible events are described as a natural, matter-of-fact part of everyday reality.