García Márquez

American  

[gahr-see-uh mahr-kes, gahr-see-ah mahr-kes] / gɑrˈsi ə ˈmɑr kɛs, gɑrˈsi ɑ ˈmɑr kɛs /

noun

1. Gabriel 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.

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García Márquez British  

/ ɡarˈsia ˈmarkes /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

That bloody chapter in Colombian history provided a factual basis for a subplot in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” an epic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

He and Gabriel García Márquez were the big forces of the Latin American literary movement known as the Boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

In his ground-breaking novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez famously highlighted the massacre of workers on banana plantations in the country in the 1920s.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

But García Márquez, who died in 2014, always resisted such offers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

García Márquez, the Colombian novelist known for his mastery of magical realism, was a strong supporter of Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime leader, and had longstanding ties to the film festival in Havana.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2024