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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

Nobel Prize · 1982 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9798200952090

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Nobel Prize in Literature1982Winner

About This Book

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

About the Author

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist and journalist who pioneered magical realism. Best known for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, which sold over 50 million copies, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for combining the fantastic and realistic in richly imagined worlds.

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