Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), was the first Columbian to ever win a Nobel Prize. By the time García Márquez, who was a journalist and a screen-writer as well, received the Nobel Prize, he was already one of the most popular writers in the world. A pioneer in the writing style known as magic realism, which combines a realistic narrative with fantasy, his best-known novels are ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. Each new book by him increased his reputation as a global literary icon, with first editions that sold millions and were published in over 20 languages.
