Friday, May 4, 2012

Interesting Facts about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an author










  1. Gabriel Garcial Marquez was born in 1928 in Aracata, Colombia
  2. He published his first book of short stories, "Leaf Storm" (La Hojarasca) and other stories in 1955.
  3. On 1967, he published his best-known novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". William Kennedy has called it "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race,"
  4. On 1981, his Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published. The novel was also adapted into a film by Italian director Francesco Rosi in 1987.
  5. On 1982, he won Nobel Prize in literature.
  6. On 1985, he wrote the novel "Love in the time Of Cholera" (El amor en los tiempos del cólera). It is considered a non-traditional love story as "lovers find love in their 'golden years'- in their seventies, when death is all around them".
Non-fictions by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • On 1996, News of a Kidnapping 
  • On 1998, The Solitude of Latin America
  • On 1982, The Fragrance of Guava with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
  • On 1986, Clandestine in Chile
  • On 1996, News of a Kidnapping 
  • On 1998, A Country for Children 
  • On 2002, Living to Tell the Tale 
Novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • On 1962, In Evil Hour 
  • On 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude 
  • On 1975, The Autumn of the Patriarch 
  • On 1985, Love in the Time of Cholera 
  • On 1989, The General in His Labyrinth
Novellas by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • On 1955, Leaf Storm 
  • On 1961, No One Writes to the Colonel 
  • On 1981, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • On 1994, Of Love and Other Demons 
  • On 2004, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Short story collections by Gabriel Garcia
  1. On 1955, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
  2. On 1974, Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog)
  3. On 1978, Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories
  4. On 1984, Collected Stories
  5. On 1993, Strange Pilgrims 





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