Author's Biography

 Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Aracataca, March 6, 1927-Mexico City, April 17, 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist. Known primarily for his novels and short stories, he also wrote nonfiction, speeches, reports, film reviews, and memoirs. He was known as Gabo, and to his friends and family as Gabito. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the real are combined in a world richly composed of imagination, the that reflects the life and conflicts of a continent.

It is inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, is considered one of the most representative of this literary movement, and it is even considered that the success of the novel is that such a term was applies to the literature that emerged from the 1960s in Latin America. In 2007 the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language published a popular commemorative edition of this work, considering it part of the great Hispanic classics of all time. He was famous both for his genius as a writer and for his position politics. His friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro was well known in the literary and political world.