Writing for Style: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. García Márquez has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe and currently spends much of his time in Mexico City.

Widely credited with introducing the global public to magical realism, he has secured both significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success.

• In Evil Hour 1962
• One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967
• The Autumn of the Patriarch 1975
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981
• Love in the Time of Cholera 1985
• The General in His Labyrinth 1989
• Of Love and Other Demons 1994
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores 2004

His work seamlessly combines the real and the unreal, and his writing is more sensual than intellectual. You can feel and smell and hear his novels. They are eaten and breathed as much as read.

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