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Product descriptionAuthor BiographyGabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), born in Colombia, is one of the most important and influential figures in universal literature. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he was, in addition to being a novelist, short story writer, essayist, film critic, scriptwriter and, above all, an intellectual committed to the great problems of our time, and primarily to those that affected his beloved Colombia and Latin America in general. Maximum figure of the so-called "magical realism", in which history and imagination weave the tapestry of a living literature, which breathes through all its pores, was ultimately the maker of one of the densest narrative worlds of meaning that the language has given. Spanish in the 20th century. Among his most important novels are One Hundred Years of Solitude ,The colonel has no one to write to him , Tale of a shipwrecked man , Chronicle of a death foretold , The bad hour , The general in his labyrinth , the book of stories Twelve pilgrim tales , Love in the time of cholera and Diatribade amor contra un hombre sitting . In 2002 he published the first part of his autobiography, Live to tell it ; in 2004 he returned to fiction with Memories of my sad whores , and in 2012 his stories were compiled in All stories .