Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Writer(1927-2014)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
• Known as: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Birth: March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia
• Death: April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
• Language: Spanish
• Who he was: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Autumn of the Patriarch; Love in the Time of Cholera; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
• Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC

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