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Gabriel García Márquez

1927 - 2014

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Gabriel José García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel García Márquez is the 31st most popular writer (up from 55th in 2019), the most popular biography from Colombia (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Colombian Writer.

Gabriel García Márquez is most famous for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967. The novel is set in the fictional town of Macondo, and tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family.

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Among writers, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 31 out of 7,302. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Rumi, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. After him are Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, and George Orwell.

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Among people born in 1927, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict XVI. After him are Ferenc Puskás, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Günter Grass, Olof Palme, Gina Lollobrigida, K. Alex Müller, F. Sherwood Rowland, Peter Falk, Roger Moore, and Samuel P. Huntington. Among people deceased in 2014, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 1. After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Robin Williams, Eusébio, Ariel Sharon, Eduard Shevardnadze, Hiroo Onoda, Gough Whitlam, Claudio Abbado, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, and Eli Wallach.

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Among people born in Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 1 out of 356. After him are Pablo Escobar (1949), Shakira (1977), Fernando Botero (1932), Griselda Blanco (1943), Juan Manuel Santos (1951), Andrés Escobar (1967), César Gaviria (1947), René Higuita (1966), Carlos Valderrama (1961), Gustavo Petro (1960), and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943).

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Among writers born in Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 1. After him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Jorge Isaacs (1837), José Eustasio Rivera (1888), Fernando Vallejo (1942), Juan Gabriel Vásquez (1973), and Laura Restrepo (1950).

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