García Márquez
Americannoun
noun
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Magical realism was in its heyday, and Gabriel García Márquez was becoming its patron saint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
“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 ● Sep. 23, 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
A librarian dressed up as Mr. García Márquez to read parts of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” to children.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
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