Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist, journalist, and Nobel laureate.

He was born on March 6, 1927 in a small coastal town of Aracataca (Colombia).

He created a new literary genre – magical realism. He gained fame and recognition with the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, which is called an encyclopedia of human life and love.

In 1982 Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In the following years came out a lot of well-known today works of the writer: novels “Love in the time of cholera”, “The General in his labyrinth”, collections of “Twelve Traveling Stories”, “Love and Other Demons”, “Report on the kidnapping”.

Marquez for many years experienced serious health problems in the field of oncology.

On April 17, 2014, the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez died at the age of 87 in Mexico City, where he lived for more than half a century.