Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)
Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the show more Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Gabriel García Márquez
Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold) (1947) 701 copies, 2 reviews
Cien años de soledad y un homenaje: Discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes (2007) — Author — 15 copies
Leaf Storm | The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor | No One Writes to the Colonel | In Evil Hour | One Hundred Years of… (2014) 12 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2019) 11 copies
Big Mama’s Funeral | Innocent Erendira and Other Stories | Eyes of a Blue Dog | The Autumn of the Patriarch |… (1985) 5 copies, 1 review
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | Dora, Doralina | One Hundred Years of Solitude | One Day of Life (1984) 4 copies
La Soledad de América Latina: Brindis por la poesía (Colección Discursos Alpha Decay) (2008) 4 copies
Cuatro aniversarios 4 copies
Cien años de soledad 3 copies
LA HOJARASCA 3 copies
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collection: Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death… (2011) 3 copies
EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Collected Stories (2002) 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | One Day After Saturday (1999) 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | No One Writes to the Colonel | The Autumn of the Patriarch (1989) 3 copies
The Saint [short story] 3 copies
Eyes of a Blue Dog [short story] 3 copies
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Of Love and Other Demons | Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2006) 3 copies
O Amor Nos Tempos De Cólera 2 copies
Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ De biografie 2 copies
DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS 2 copies
Tramontana [short story] 2 copies
Trăm năm cô đơn 2 copies
Un manual para ser niño 2 copies
Me Alquilo Para Sonar: Capitulo 6 2 copies
Alle romans 2 copies
Opere Narrative, volume 02 2 copies
Leaf Storm | In Evil Hour 2 copies
One of These Days [short story] 2 copies
O General No Seu Labirinto 2 copies
La hojarasca [Litter] 1 copy
Caribe Mágico [short story] 1 copy
The General in His Labyrinth 1 copy
A Farewell Letter 1 copy
كوبا في زمن الحصار 1 copy
The General in his Labyrinth 1 copy
Presagio 1 copy
Cuatro aniversarios 1 copy
The Third Resignation 1 copy
The Sea of Lost Time 1 copy
Tình Yêu Thời Thổ Tả 1 copy
قصص ضائعة 1 copy
Vi ses i august 1 copy
Textos do Caribe - Volume 1 1 copy
Riba je crvena 1 copy
Dodici racconti raminghi 1 copy
El otoño del patriarca 1 copy
Zao čas 1 copy
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Strange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | The Autumn of the Patriarch (2012) 1 copy
Kötü Saatte 1 copy
ZLA KOB 1 copy
Oci plavog psa 1 copy
Pukovniku nema ko da pise 1 copy
Relatos de un Náufrago 1 copy
GAR Cien años de soledad 1 copy
Olhos de Cão Azul 1 copy
Sad Saal Tanhai 1 copy
DOS NOVELAS DE MACONDO 1 copy
VIVA SANDINO 1 copy
CRÓNICAS Y REPORTAJES 1 copy
Cien años de soledad. 1 copy
El Amor en tiempos de Cólera 1 copy
O Outono do Patriarca 1 copy
GAR Noticia de un secuestro 1 copy
GAR Vivir para contarla (II) 1 copy
La Littérature Chinoise 1 copy
La viuda de Montiel 1 copy
100 Jahre Einsamkeit 1 copy
O Amor nos Tempos da Cólera 1 copy
Obras Completas 31 Tomos 1 copy
Gabo en Alfaguara 1 copy
Libros cubanos de Gabo 1 copy
A világ legszebb vízihullája 1 copy
No one writes to the colonel and other stories. Translated from the spanish by J. S. Bernstein. 1 copy
Ağustosta Görüşürüz 1 copy
Notícia de um sequestro 1 copy
Relato de um naufrago 1 copy
El Ontono del Patriarca 1 copy
זיכרונות מהזונות העצובות שלי 1 copy
Doce Cuentos Peregrinos 1 copy
CONTEMPORÁNEA 1 copy
Notícia De Um Sequestro 1 copy
Do Amor E Outros Demónios 1 copy
Viver Para Contá-la 1 copy
Vivir para contarla II 1 copy
Ci vediamo in agosto - Ebook 1 copy
Douze contes vagabonds 1 copy
Зустрінемось у серпні 1 copy
Hundra r̄ av ensamhet 1 copy
El general en su laberinto 1 copy
Camino a Macondo 1 copy
ElOtono del Patriarca 1 copy
Textos do Caribe - Volume 2 1 copy
Me alquilo para soñar 1 copy
El Escándalo del Siglo / The Scandal of the Century: Textos En Prensa Y Revistas (1950-1984) (2020) 1 copy
Sz©Łz ©♭v mag©Łny 1 copy
Associated Works
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 1,161 copies, 3 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 955 copies, 7 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contributor — 477 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contributor — 289 copies, 5 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contributor — 259 copies, 2 reviews
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contributor — 197 copies, 2 reviews
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 152 copies, 1 review
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (1991) — Contributor — 148 copies, 3 reviews
The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album (1991) — Introduction, some editions — 143 copies, 2 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 140 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributor — 94 copies, 1 review
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 71 copies, 15 reviews
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 63 copies, 1 review
Masterworks of Latin American Short Fiction: Eight Novellas (1996) — Contributor — 52 copies, 1 review
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Contributor — 21 copies
Fidel Castro Speeches: Cuba's Internationalist Foreign Policy, Speeches, vol. 1, 1975–80 (1981) — Contributor — 18 copies
Het continent van de eenzaamheid reportages en beschouwingen over Latijns-Amerika (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies
La Otredad: Antología de cuentos latinoamericanos del siglo XX (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies, 1 review
Maestros de la Literatura Universal: Latinoamerica — Contributor — 3 copies
Hoog zomerboek : dertien romans, novellen en lange verhalen van Gabriel García Márquez, Roald Dahl, Herman Koch,… (1994) — Contributor — 3 copies
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenendertig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
I'm the One You're Looking For [1988 film] — Author — 2 copies
The Summer of Miss Forbes [TV episode] — Author — 1 copy
Oitenta, Vol. 6 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Review of Conttemporary Fiction: Number VIII, #2 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Legal name
- García Márquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia
- Other names
- Márquez, Gabriel García
- Birthdate
- 1927-03-06
- Date of death
- 2014-04-17
- Burial location
- Cremated
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Colombia
- Birthplace
- Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Places of residence
- Bogotá, Colombia
Mexico City, Mexico - Education
- boarding school (Barranquilla ∙ Colombia)
Liceo Nacional (Zipaquirá)
National University of Colombia (Law ∙ Journalism)
Universidad de Cartegena - Occupations
- journalist
reporter
novelist - Relationships
- García, Rodrigo (son)
Vargas Llosa, Mario (student) - Organizations
- El Heraldo newspaper (reporter, editor)
El Universal newspaper (reporter, editor)
Barranquilla Group (member)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1974)
Fundacion para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), President - Awards and honors
- scholarship (Liceo Nacional)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972)
Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1982)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005)
Members
Discussions
OT: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s last unfinished work being published in Folio Society Devotees (March 21)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez in The Weird Tradition (February 27)
Gabriel García Márquez dies, aged 87 in South American Fiction-Argentine Writers (June 2014)
GROUP READ --- "Love in the time of the cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (June 2012)
1001 Group Read: 100 Years of Solitude in 1001 Books to read before you die (July 2011)
Group Read: 100 Years of Solitude in Club Read 2011 (July 2011)
GROUP READ: Love In The Time Of Cholera in 1001 Books to read before you die (June 2011)
Reviews
DNF Got 74% through it but could not go any farther.
The title story is ridiculous but enjoyable-- who can resist a good evil grandmother revenge tale? Unfortunately I didn't find the rest of the stories in the collection to be very enjoyable or memorable. Interesting to see Marquez experiment as a younger writer, but he would go on to do much greater things later on!
I think Gabriel Garcia Marquez was the first good writer (ie, not Stephen King or Dean Koontz) that I obsessed over. Sometime in 2005 or '06 I read something by him, and then spent the next few months or years reading everything of his that I could get my hand on. Not everything was great, but a lot were, and even the not great ones were better than just about anything else I had read. Scandal was collected and published in 2019 and is a collection of writing from Marquez's time as a journalist.
Gabriel the novel writer and Gabriel the journalist have pretty much the same style. He reported stories with the same easy, magical style with which he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera, and it made me long for the days of newspapers. Though none of the columnists I remember reading when I was a kid could hold a candle to Gabo.
About half of these columns are from before he became famous and the other half are from after; he took a pretty long break to write a bunch of world-changing novels. The pre-famous writing still has his unique style, but he's doing what a regular journalist does, and reporting on stories. After he became famous though, he seemed more comfortable telling stories from the past about adventures he had been on or famous people he had known. Neither part of the book is better than the other, it's just interesting to see the change.
I don't know if this book would interest many people. I don't know if it would have interested me if it hadn't been written by who it was written by, but it was a nice, quick, light read; something that I really feel like I needed.… (more)
Gabriel the novel writer and Gabriel the journalist have pretty much the same style. He reported stories with the same easy, magical style with which he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera, and it made me long for the days of newspapers. Though none of the columnists I remember reading when I was a kid could hold a candle to Gabo.
About half of these columns are from before he became famous and the other half are from after; he took a pretty long break to write a bunch of world-changing novels. The pre-famous writing still has his unique style, but he's doing what a regular journalist does, and reporting on stories. After he became famous though, he seemed more comfortable telling stories from the past about adventures he had been on or famous people he had known. Neither part of the book is better than the other, it's just interesting to see the change.
I don't know if this book would interest many people. I don't know if it would have interested me if it hadn't been written by who it was written by, but it was a nice, quick, light read; something that I really feel like I needed.… (more)
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This famous author's writing style is quite good. The story jumped around in time. It was amusing at first but later became slow and tedious. But I'm persistent and continued to slog along. By the halfway mark, it felt like I'd never reach the end.
Then I was rescued -- someone put the ebook on hold and it's gone. The end.
4 stars for the writing style and 2 stars for the story.… (more)