Gabriel García Márquez Staff Lounge, second floor

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and Nobel Prize winner, and considered a founder of magical realism. Born in Aracataca, Colombia, and raised by his grandparents, he was deeply influenced by political history and folklore. Though he studied law, García Márquez pursued journalism and fiction, drawing on Latin American culture and history in his work.

His most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), brought him international recognition. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and authored many other celebrated works, including Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).

Regarded as one of the most renowned Latin American authors in history, García Márquez has influenced generations of writers across the entire world.