* * This is an revised and enlarged version of an earlier torrent * *
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982 (23 books)
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (1927 – 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."
García Márquez started as a journalist and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories. He is best known for his novels, such as ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967) which sold over fifty million copies, CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD (1981), and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. He is the most-translated Spanish-language author.
UNTIL AUGUST (2024), a novel written when the author had dementia in the last years of his life, was published in March 2024 – against his instruction that it be destroyed. Described by his sons as “the fruits of one last effort to carry on creating against all odds”, it tells the story of a woman who makes a yearly pilgrimage to her mother’s grave on a Caribbean island, a trip that becomes dominated by a series of chance sexual encounters.
Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived."
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
== NOVELS ==
* The Autumn of the Patriarch (Avon, 1977) – PDF * The Autumn of the Patriarch (Penguin, 2014) * The General in His Labyrinth (Knopf, 1990) – PDF^ * The General in His Labyrinth (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * In Evil Hour (Harper & Row, 1979) – PDF * In Evil Hour (Penguin, 2014) * Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * Of Love and Other Demons (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin, 2014) – PDF^ * One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin, 2014) * Until August (Knopf, 2024)
== NOVELLAS & SHORT STORIES ==
* Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * Collected Stories (Penguin, 2014) * Leaf Storm (Penguin, 2014) * Leaf Storm and Other Stories (Avon, 1973) – PDF^ * Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * No One Writes to the Colonel (Avon, 1973) – PDF * No One Writes to the Colonel (Penguin, 2014) * Strange Pilgrims (Knopf, 1993) – PDF^ * Strange Pilgrims (Vintage, 2014)
== ANTHOLOGY ==
* Gabriel García Márquez Library (Penguin, 2014)
== NON-FICTION ==
* Clandestine in Chile (Holt, 1987) – PDF * Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez [ed. Bell-Villada] (Mississippi, 2006) – PDF * The Fragrance of Guava: Conversations with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza (Verso, 1983) – PDF * I'm Not Here to Give a Speech (Vintage, 2019) * The Last Interview & Other Conversations [ed. Streitfeld] (Melville House, 2015) * Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf, 2003) – PDF * Living to Tell the Tale (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * News of a Kidnapping (Penguin / Vintage, 2014) * Scandal of the Century and Other Writings (Knopf, 2019) * Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Vintage, 2014)
