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[[File:Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez.jpg|alt=Headshot photo of Garcia Marquez|right|thumb|Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]
'''Gabriel García Márquez''' was a [[Colombia|Columbian]]-[[Mexico|Mexican]] writer. He lived from 1928 to 2014. He died at the age of 87.

== Books ==
His famous book ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' was written in 1967.

He created a new type of writing called [[Magic Realism]].

Other books he wrote were ''The Autumn of the Patriarch'', and ''Love in the Time of Cholera''.

== Awards ==
He won the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[Literature]] in 1982.

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