Famous Colombian People

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (writer).

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Widely considered the greatest living Latin American master of narrative, Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 thanks to his master piece: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

He began his literary career while a law student in Barranquilla, publishing stories in local magazines. He left Colombia in the late 1950s and since then has lived in many places, later in life mainly in Mexico City. Drawing on his own history and his family’s, town, and nation and reflecting the influence of writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Alejo Carpentier, his work focuses on the physical and moral travail of coastal Colombia, which is given universal meaning in his books.