García Márquez

[ gahr-see-uh mahr-kes; Spanish gahr-see-ah mahr-kes ]

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noun

Ga·bri·el [gey, -bree-, uh, l, gah-bree-, el, gah-bree-, el] 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.

García Márquez

/ ɡarˈsia ˈmarkes /

García MárquezGabriel1927MColombianWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Gabriel. born 1927, Colombian novelist and short-story writer. His novels include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1977), Love in the Time of Cholera (1984), and News of a Kidnapping (1996). Nobel prize for literature 1982

"Escobar gave a start," Gabriel García Márquez wrote in his book, News of a Kidnapping.

Whatever else they were, García Márquez and Faulkner were both great storytellers.

Gabriel García Márquez, dead at 87, wrote a lot of great fiction, but nothing greater than One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Like all top-drawer authors, García Márquez possesses magnificent authority.

Like his idol William Faulkner, García Márquez gets a lot of credit for literary experiments and narrative breakthroughs.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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