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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia   (1928 - )
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About Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
 
Non fiction
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel LittinA Country for ChildrenLiving to Tell the TaleTorrijos: The Man and the Myth
 
Anthologies containing stories by Gabriel García Márquez
Elsewhere TwoThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual CollectionThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual CollectionNightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories
 
Short stories
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World [short story] (1971)
Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles (1972)
The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1972)
Death Constant Beyond Love (1973)
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother (1973)
The Sea of Lost Time (1974)
Eyes of a Blue Dog (1978)
The Night of the Curlews (1978)
Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses (1978)
The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock (1978)
Artificial Roses (1984)
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (1984)
Big Mama's Funeral (1984)
Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers (1984)
Dialogue with the Mirror (1984)
Eva is Inside Her Cat (1984)
Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo (1984)
Montiel's Widow (1984)
Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wai (1984)
One Day After Saturday (1984)
One of These Days (1984)
The Other Side of Death (1984)
There Are No Thieves in This Town (1984)
The Third Resignation (1984)
Tuesday Siesta (1984)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1984)
The Saint (1992)
The Ghosts of August (1993)
Caribe Mágico (1996)


Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature Lifetime Achievement winner (1982)
Oprah's Book Club Best Novel nominee (2004) : One Hundred Years of Solitude


Books about Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera
 
Gabriel García Márquez recommends
Santa Evita
Santa Evita (1996)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
"Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read."
Butterfly's Tongue
Butterfly's Tongue (2000)
Manuel Rivas
"A perfect marriage of film and literature."
Purgatory
Purgatory (2011)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
"Here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."



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