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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Author Bio

  • NameGabriel Garcia Marquez
  • DescriptionColombian writer and journalist
  • AliasesGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; Gabriel García Márquez; García Márquez; Gabriel Márquez; el padre del realismo magico
  • BornMarch 6, 1928
  • DiedApril 17, 2014
  • CountryColombia
  • ProfessionNovelist; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Screenwriter; Playwright; Autobiographer; Writer; Publisher
  • WorksOne Hundred Years Of Solitude; The Autumn Of The Patriarch; Love In The Time Of Cholera
  • AwardsNeustadt International Prize For Literature; Nobel Prize In Literature; Order Of Honour; Legion Of Honour