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What are the most emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez?
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This Friday the world commemorates the 93 anniversary of the birth of Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, he dedicated his life to journalism but stood out as a literary creator. García Márquez conquered a massive and faithful public who marveled at his always intense, dense, complex and moving work. This man, who recreated magical realism and led the Latin American boom, also contributed to the continent’s literature expanding through every corner of the planet. For those who still do not know his versatile work, Canal Caribe shares a list with five of his most emblematic books.ç

1- One hundred years of loneliness

🔹 His most recognized book, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a novel that leads Latin America to magical realism with the incredible story of a family saga.

🔹In June 1967, the first edition was published in Buenos Aires.

2- The colonel has no one to write to him

🔹The story takes place in 1956 and its protagonist is a veteran of the Thousand Days War who lives with his asthmatic wife waiting for the pension that never arrives.

García Márquez recognized that it was the simplest of the novels he had written, since he has no jumps in the plot or fantastic phenomena appear, however he said it was his best book.

It was published in 1961.

3- Love in the time of cholera

🔹 While love is a topic that the Colombian author deals with on a recurring basis, in no book is it as central as it is.

🔹 Published in 1985, it is inspired by the love of its parents.

4- Chronicle of a death foretold

🔹Published for the first time in 1981, it is the novel that represented an approach between the journalistic and the narrative within his career.

🔹 There stands out the multiplicity of characters and the disturbing plot.

5- News of a kidnapping

🔹 Published in 1996, it is a great book to get to know your journalistic capacity better.

🔹To build this story, García Márquez relied on the story of the kidnapping of several prominent figures from Colombia during the narcoterrorism era, in the early 1990s.

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