Birth of Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aracataca. A Colombian novelist, short-story writer and journalist, García Márquez, often called Gabo, is the best-known author of magical realism, in which extraordinary events are treated as ordinary. His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude of 1967, which follows several generations of a family in the imaginary town of Macondo, sold tens of millions of copies. Other works include Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He lived much of his life in Mexico and was friendly with several left-wing leaders, and died in Mexico City.

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