Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014)

Awarded the Prize “for his novels short stories, in which the fantastic the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life conflicts.”

Columbian novelist. Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca. He studied law journalism at the National University in Bogota at the University of Cartagena. His first story appeared in 1947. Next year he started his career as a journalist worked for the next 10 years in different towns in Latin America Europe. Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Major Works:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981); Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)