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3	Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014). The name that is synonymous with MagicRealism. Born in Colombia in 1927, the man has been on the writing scene for a very long time and produced a solid body of work. In 1982, he gained the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. His book ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' has become ''the'' definitive work of Magic Realism, not to mention his most famous book. It is now required reading in many schools in the Spanish-speaking world.
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5	His grandmother was a great influence to his literary career. When he read ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Franz Kafka, he pereceived it to be quite similar to the style of his grandmother.
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7	His books deal with themes like solitude, eternal cycles, {{Banana Republic}}s, political disputes and civil wars, themes present in his life and the life of his country with distressful frequence.
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9	He has also immersed himself into the cinema, helping directors [[TheFilmOfTheBook to turn some of his books into films]].
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11	Nowadays, García Márquez's fame has become [[ItsPopularNowItSucks a little awkward to Latin American writers]], since it has generated the impression that all the literature of the zone is about angels, jungles and countryside. As a countermovement, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McOndo McOndo literary movement]] has been created by writers trying to present a more actualized Latin America. He’s still respected by those writers as a good writer, however.
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13	On the 7th of July, 2012, Márquez's brother revealed that he was [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18749389 suffering from senile dementia]] and had [[CareerEndingInjury given up writing for good]]. He passed away on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87.
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15	!! Books:
16	!!!Novels
17	* ''Leaf Storm'' (1955)
18	* ''No One Writes to the Colonel'' (1961)
19	* ''In Evil Hour'' (1962)
20	* ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' (1967)
21	* ''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch'' (1975)
22	* ''Literature/ChronicleOfADeathForetold'' (1981)
23	* ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (1985)
24	* ''The General in His Labyrinth'' (1989)
25	* ''Of Love and Other Demons'' (1995)
26	* ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores'' (2004)
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28	!!!Short Story Collections
29	* ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' (1947)
30	* ''Big Mama's Funeral'' (1962)
31	* ''Literature/TheIncredibleAndSadTaleOfInnocentErendiraAndHerHeartlessGrandmother'' (1978)
32	* ''Collected Stories'' (1984)
33	* ''Strange Pilgrims'' (1993)
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35	!!! Non-Fiction
36	* ''The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor'' (1970)
37	* ''The Solitude of Latin America'' (1982)
38	* ''The Fragrance of Guava'' (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza)
39	* ''Clandestine in Chile'' (1986)
40	* ''News of a Kidnapping'' (1996)
41	* ''A Country for Children'' (1998)
42	* ''Living to Tell the Tale'' (2002), his autobiography
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44	!!García Márquez’s works contain examples of:
45	%%* AnachronicOrder
46	* BananaRepublic: The setting of almost all his books.
47	* BattleButler: José Palacios in ''The General in his Labyrinth''.
48	* CivilWar: A common theme in his novels is the generational war between the liberals and conservatives of Colombia, whether in ''La Violencia'' from 1948-58, or the Thousand Days War from 1899-1902.
49	* DesecratingTheDead: ''Leaf Storm'' is about a doctor who killed himself, and the town instead of burying him just wants to let him rot in his house.
50	* DoubleStandard: Usually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
51	* EternalRecurrence: A central theme in a lot of stories is the fact that some things are bound to repeat themselves over and over again.
52	* TheGeneralissimo: An important character is most of his books. Actually, in some of them (''Literature/TheAutumnOfThePatriarch'', ''The General in his Labyrinth'') he's the main character.
53	%%* GenerationXerox
54	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Most of the main characters in ''The General in his Labyrinth'', especially Simón Bolívar.
55	* HistoricalFictionLiterature: Many of his books make implicit or explicit allusions to "La Violencia", a period of civil conflict in Colombia. Similarly, some of the books refer to the Thousand Days War (like ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' or ''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''). ''The General in his Labyrinth'' deals with the last days of Bolívar.
56	%%* HonorBeforeReason
57	%%* HonorRelatedAbuse
58	%%* LonelyAtTheTop
59	* MagicRealism: One of the {{Trope Maker}}s, definitely TropeCodifier.
60	%%* MindScrew
61	* OldShame: His 1983 article in a Spanish newspaper erroneously portraying [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkha soldiers]] as [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape-happy]], [[LeaveNoSurvivors prisoner-killing psychopaths]] during [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar the Falklands War]].
62	* ReferencedBy: Mirabel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' is associated with yellow butterflies. García Márquez famously used yellow butterflies in his works as a literary device, often representing love and hope.
63	%%* RomanAClef
64	* {{Robinsonade}}: His novel ''The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor'' is a non-fiction novel about one, in which a sailor called Luis Alejandro Velasco survives a broken ship and manages to return to his mainland in ten days, having survived the lack of food and water.
65	* SmallReferencePools: When people are asked to name a Latin American writer, García Márquez is one of the few names that come up.
66	%%* TurnOutLikeHisFather

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