Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was a Columbian-Mexican writer. He lived from 1928 to 2014. He died at the age of 87.
Books
His famous book One Hundred Years of Solitude was written in 1967.
He created a new type of writing called Magic Realism.
Other books he wrote were The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Awards
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.