![]() ![]() “On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.” Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretoldīuy on Amazon 3. Marquez was so beloved by his countrymen that, when he died in 2014, the president of Colombia proclaimed him “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.” Many of his books have been adapted into movies, including Chronicle of a Death Foretold, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Love in the Time of Cholera, among others. ![]() Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary style was called magic realism, a style that was coined especially to describe his way of describing the worlds he created in his works. Interestingly, another of his works, No One Writes to the Colonel, may have been partially inspired by his father’s antagonistic relationship with his father-in-law, a Colonel who disapproved of his daughter marrying Gabriel García Márquez’s father. Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. ![]() It has been translated into 46 languages and sold over 50 million copies and counting. One, in particular, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a favorite of millions worldwide. His short stories and novels are legendary. Of all the best Cuban authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez arguably has the most achieved worldwide fame. Gabriel García Márquez, 1927 – 2014 Gabriel García Márquez via Wikipedia, Public Domain ![]()
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