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Highly acclaimed Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez began his career as a journalist writing for a number of liberal South American newspapers. After writing a series of short stories and novellas, Garcia Marquez lived in seclusion for 18 months to complete his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest novels in history. This novel not only won Garcia Marquez the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 but his literary style was also influential in establishing the genre of Magical Realism. Garcia Marquez' stories are rooted in the rich landscape of Latin-America and many of his tales take place in the fictional town of Macondo- a town similar to his own native Aracataca. Other books published include Strange Pilgrims, Love in the Time of Cholera, Of Love and Other Demons and Collected Stories. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/Sally Soames) === SPECIAL FEES ===