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GabrielJosédelaConcordia"Gabo"GarcíaMárquez(Spanishpronunciation:[ɡaˈβɾjelɣarˈsi.aˈmarkes];bornMarch6,1927[1])isaColombiannovelist,short-storywriter,screenwriterandjournalist.GarcíaMárquez,affectionatelyknownasGabothroughoutLatinAmerica,isconsideredoneofthemostsignificantauthorsofthe20thcentury.HewasawardedtheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein1982.Hepursuedaself-directededucationthatresultedinhisleavinglawschoolforacareerinjournalism.Fromearlyon,heshowednoinhibitionsinhiscriticismofColombianandforeignpolitics.In1958,hemarriedMercedesBarcha;theyhavetwosons,RodrigoandGonzalo.
Hestartedasajournalist,andhaswrittenmanyacclaimednon-fictionworksandshortstories,butisbest-knownforhisnovels,suchasOneHundredYearsofSolitude(1967)andLoveintheTimeofCholera(1985).Hisworkshaveachievedsignificantcriticalacclaimandwidespreadcommercialsuccess,mostnotablyforpopularizingaliterarystylelabeledasmagicalrealism,whichusesmagicalelementsandeventsinotherwiseordinaryandrealisticsituations.SomeofhisworksaresetinafictionalvillagecalledMacondo,andmostofthemexpressthethemeofsolitude.
