Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Lite
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Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. He is best known novels, such as; One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success. Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived."
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