Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez
(b.1928), popularly known as
Gabo is a Columbian novelist,
journalist, publisher and political
activist. He received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1982. His
works are remarkable for their use
of magical realism. He has
secured significant critical acclaim
and widespread readership.
Márquez’s first major work is The
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor,
which he wrote as a newspaper
series in 1955. Some of his other
major works are the novels, One
Hundred Years of Solitude, Love
in the Time of Cholera and
Chronicle of a Death Foretold . His
autobiography is titled, Living to
Tell the Tale.