García Márquez in 2002.
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) was a Colombian journalist, short story writer, novelist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. The author of six novels and several novellas and short story collections, he is most famous One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel he published in 1967. A popularizer of the style of magical realism, he gained fame as part of The Latin American Boom in the 1960s and ‘70s. Known for his frequent criticism of the Colombian government, he spent the majority of his life in self-imposed exile in Mexico.
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