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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez .. Caricature by Marco D'Agostino - Italy |
Gabriel García Marquez
(6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story
writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo.
He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences.