García Márquez

[gahr-see-uh mahr-kes, gahr-see-ah mahr-kes]

noun

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

García Márquez

/ 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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“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.

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

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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.

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In 1976, he punched Gabriel García Márquez in a Mexico City movie theater, leaving the writer with a deep welt around his eye.

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García Márquez famously posed for a smiling portrait with a black eye and theories quickly abounded about the reason for the fight — the principal ones having to do with García Márquez consoling Patricia in the wake of reputed infidelities by her husband.

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