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Gabriel García Márquez

Born

in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

March 06, 1927

Died

April 17, 2014

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism

Influences

William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Juan Rulfo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest ...more

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr ...more

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Gabriel García Márquez’s books

Average rating: 3.99 · 2,159,157 ratings · 118,130 reviews · 809 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.11 avg rating — 973,506 ratings — published 1967 — 995 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 505,653 ratings — published 1985 — 607 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of a Death Foretold 3.97 avg rating — 194,318 ratings — published 1981 — 518 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 87,459 ratings — published 2004 — 228 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Love and Other Demons 3.97 avg rating — 76,365 ratings — published 1994 — 312 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba 3.80 avg rating — 53,503 ratings — published 1961 — 351 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph Hogan (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 29,241 ratings — published 1955 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 25,059 ratings — published 1992 — 232 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.87 avg rating — 23,682 ratings — published 1975 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The General in His Labyrinth 3.69 avg rating — 23,271 ratings — published 1989 — 248 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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February 2018 Short Story Poll

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway, 1952, 26 pages

56 votes, 17.2%

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, 1904, 96 pages

53 votes, 16.3%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848, 82 pages

34 votes, 10.4%

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890, 54 pages.

29 votes, 8.9%

Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich, 1942, 47 pages

27 votes, 8.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages

26 votes, 8.0%

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, 120 pages. 1981

26 votes, 8.0%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 1918, 82 pages

23 votes, 7.1%

The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, 1824, 37 pages

19 votes, 5.8%

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 1944, 48 pages

14 votes, 4.3%

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 1936, 115 pages

10 votes, 3.1%

The Eyes by Edith Wharton, 1910 48 pages

9 votes, 2.8%

326 total votes

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