Gabriel García Márquez

He was a novelist, story-script maker and also journalist.

Born on 6 ^th March 1927 in Aracataca Colombia and passed away on 17^th April 2014 in México.

When he was 27 he published his first novel  La hojarasca, but he was not  worldwide known until later in 1967 when Cien años de soledad -One Hundred Years of Solitude- came to light for the first time achieving more than 8.000 copies  sold in only one week.

Cien años de soledad was translated into more than twenty-four languages and was internationally recognized .

Among his work, besides the previous mentioned novels, we can mention: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba -No One Writes to the Colonel (1961), Relato de un náufrago - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor-(1970), Crónica de una muerte anunciada - Chronicle of a Death Foretold -, El amor en los tiempos de cólera -Love in the Time of Cholera - (1981), (1985), Del amor y otros demonios -Of Love and Other Demons-(1994), among many others.

"Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude". - "El coronel Aureliano Buendía entendió, que la vejez, no es más que un pacto honrado con la soledad".  (One Hundred Years of Solitude)