Gabriel García Márquez
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 García Márquez signing a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Havana, Cuba. |
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| Born | March 6, 1927 Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia |
| Occupation | novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. |
| Nationality | Colombia |
| Literary movement | Magical Realism |
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927[1] in Aracataca, Colombia) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in 1982.
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[change] Nobel Prize
In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts".[2][3]
[change] Recent Work
In 2002, he published the memoir Vivir para contarla, the first of a projected three-volume autobiography.
[change] Film
A number of films have been made of García Márquez's work.
[change] Bibliography
[change] Novels
- In Evil Hour 1962
- One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967
- The Autumn of the Patriarch 1975
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981
- Love in the Time of Cholera 1985
- The General in His Labyrinth 1989
- Of Love and Other Demons 1994
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores 2004
[change] Short Story Collections
- No One Writes to the Colonel 1968
- Leaf Storm 1972
- Innocent Erendira 1978
- Strange Pilgrims 1992
- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
[change] Non-fiction
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor 1955
- The Fragrance of Guava 1982
- Clandestine in Chile 1987
- News of a Kidnapping 1996
- A Country for Children 1998
- Living to Tell the Tale 2002
[change] References
- ↑ (Spanish) Distintas ciudades del mundo rinden homenaje a García Márquez en su 80 cumpleaños. Clarin (2007-03-06). Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
- ↑ Nobel Prize in Literature for 1982
- ↑ Nobelprize.org
Fernández Leal Augusto, La vida de Máquez
[change] Further reading
- Bhalla, Alok (1987). Garcia Marquez and Latin America.
- Bell, Michael (1993). Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity.
- Bloom, Harold (2007). Gabriel García Márquez (Modern Critical Views).
- Bloom, Harold (2006). Gabriel García Márquez (Bloom's BioCritiques).
- Bloom, Harold (2006). One Hundred Years of Solitude (Modern Critical Interpretations).
- Bloom, Harold (2005). Love in the time of cholera (Modern Critical Interpretations).
- Darraj, Susan (2006). Gabriel García Márquez(The great Hispanic heritage).
- Fahy, Thomas (2003). Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the time of cholera : a reader's guide.
- Fiddian, Robin W. (1995). García Márquez.
- Fuentes, Carlos (1987). Gabriel García Márquez and the Invention of America.
- Janes, Regina (1981). Gabriel García Márquez: Revolutions in Wonderland.
- McGuirk, Bernard (1987). Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings.
- McMurray, George R. (1977). Gabriel García Márquez.
- McMurray, George R. (1987). Critical essays on Gabriel García Márquez.
- McMurray, George R. (1987). Gabriel García Márquez: Life, Work, and Criticism.
- McNerney, Kathleen (1989). Understanding Gabriel García Márquez.
- Mellen, Joan (2000). Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
- Miller, Yvette E. (1985). Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- Oberhelman, Harley D. (1991). Gabriel García Márquez: A Study of the Short Fiction.
- Ortega, Julio (1988). Gabriel García Márquez and the Powers of Fiction.
- Oyarzún, Kemy (1984). Essays on Gabriel García Márquez.
- Penuel, Arnold M. (1994). Intertextuality in García Márquez.
- Pelayo, Rubén (2001). Gabriel García Márquez: A Critical Companion.
- Shaw, Bradley A. (1986). Critical Perspectives on Gabriel García Márquez.
- Vergara, Isabel (1998). Haunting demons : critical essays on the works of Gabriel García Márquez.
- Villada, Gene (2002). Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude : a casebook.
- Williams, Raymond L. (1984). Gabriel García Márquez (Twayne's World Authors Series).
[change] Other websites
- Ghostwriting Gabo [Memoir Piece] by David Unger at Guernica Magazine
- García Márquez, Gabriel at the Open Directory Project
- Garcia Marquez at The Modern Word
- Oprah makes latest book club pick
- Documentary 52': Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The world according Garcia Marquez [in spanish] by Piedad Bonnet - Icono Editorial
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