Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (born 1928 March 6 in Aracataca, Colombia) was a Latin-American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. A central figure in the Magical Realism movement, a term used in 1920s Germany to describe painters, whose works expressed surrealistic visions. Applied to literature by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who recognized the tendency of Latin-American writers to combine fantasy elements & mythology with otherwise realistic fiction.

Among magic realists are Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende & Julio Cortázar. His best known work is Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). García Márquez is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

External link

• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marquez.htm