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.