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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, best known for his works, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His style of writing is associated with magical realism but Marquez did not so much create new universes but rather, suggested at the magical that exists in our world through his particular approach.

Born in Aracataca, near the North Eastern Caribbean coast of Colombia in 1927, Gabriel Garcia Marquez developed into a writer whose early works explored themes more or less, reflecting the reality of Colombia.

Later, with works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez explored in greater depth the psychological aspect or reality that for better or worse has been categorized as being of the style of Magical Realism.

Perhaps this is unfortunate because it emphasizes the exotic in his works and fails to see that he is in fact, exposing psychological truths that are not or perhaps cannot, be expressed or understood by the old European modes of thought that tend toward the linear and overly rationale but perhaps at the loss of other types of insight?

At any rate, either in Spanish or English, his novels are a wonderful place to begin to get further insight into the rich and complex Colombian history and culture. Either to learn Spanish, about Colombia or both, what better place to begin with this, one of the greatest authors we have?

His most famous novels include:

- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Love in the time of Cholera
- Of Love and other Demons
- No One Writes to the Colonel

And if you want to cheat a bit, there's a number of films based on his books too:

- Love in the Time of Cholera
- No One Writes to the Colonel
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold

HAPPY READING!

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