Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian novelist and Nobel Laureate (1982). His One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) invented magical realism as a literary form and is one of the best-selling Spanish-language novels in history. A committed leftist and friend of Fidel Castro, he used his fiction to explore Latin American history, violence, and identity.
- Lived: 1927 CE – 2014 CE
- Nationality: Colombian
- Roles: novelist, journalist, writer
