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Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 [b] in the small town of Aracataca, in the Caribbean region of Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán. [8] Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved with his wife to the nearby large port city of Barranquilla , leaving young ...
The following is a list of works published by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, which includes short stories, novellas, novels, and collections, and other writings. Majority of his work deals with themes such as love, solitude, and the influence of Caribbean culture . [ 1 ]
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo- journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins.
The choice of García Márquez as the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1982 was enthusiastically well received by literary critics and readers around the world. [4] García Márquez was among the favourites to receive the prize, other candidates for the prize that got strong attention in the press this year were Octavio Paz, Marguerite Yourcenar and Nadine Gordimer.
Among the most influential and notable members were Gabriel García Márquez, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Germán Vargas, and Alfonso Fuenmayor, all of whom also comprise the fictionalized Barranquilla Group referred to as the "four friends" of Macondo in Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) (1967), by García Márquez. [1]
Macondo is the name of a refugee settlement in Simmering, a municipality on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, [4] [5] named after Garcia Márquez's fictitious town by Chilean refugees. It has been home to successive waves of refugees since Hungarians came en masse after the revolution of 1956 , followed by Czechoslovak and Romanian waves in ...
Short stories by Gabriel García Márquez (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Works by Gabriel García Márquez" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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