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

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

From The Wall Street Journal

“Ninety percent of my audiobook work is based on my last name,” observes Thom Rivera, who has narrated works by Gabriel García Márquez, Guillermo del Toro and Michael Nava.

From Los Angeles Times

For the first time since his youth, Minguela had time to read books, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “No One Writes to the Colonel.”

From Los Angeles Times

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