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Friday, April 18, 2014

Readers' Advisory

Farewell Gabriel García Marquez
Author / Nobel Prize Winner
1927-2014
 
 

One of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century, Gabriel García Márquez was a key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s. His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was read throughout the world, selling millions of copies and introducing enthusiastic readers across the globe to the genre of "magical realism."  A prolific journalist as well as a novelist and short story writer, García Márquez has reported from several world capitals and remained active through the 1990s as publisher of the Colombian news magazine Cambio. He continued working into the early 2000s, although some reports speculated that the aging author had given up writing (Newsmakers, February 1, 2005).

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