WRITER

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 - 2014

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) 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 One Hundred Years of Solitude. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel García Márquez has received more than 7,552,768 page views. His biography is available in 155 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Gabriel García Márquez is the 55th most popular writer (down from 54th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Colombia and the most popular Colombian Writer.

Gabriel García Márquez is most famous for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967. The novel is set in the fictional town of Macondo, and tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family.

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  • 7.6M

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  • 83.18

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  • 155

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 55 out of 7,302. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mirbeau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, Thomas Mann, and Mark Twain. After him are George Orwell, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, and Giacomo Casanova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 1. After him are Pope Benedict XVI, Ferenc Puskás, Gina Lollobrigida, Günter Grass, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Olof Palme, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Among people deceased in 2014, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 2. Before him is Ariel Sharon. After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Eusébio, Robin Williams, Eduard Shevardnadze, Claudio Abbado, Luis Aragonés, Joe Cocker, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Eli Wallach, and Gough Whitlam.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 2 out of 356. Before him are Pablo Escobar (1949). After him are Griselda Blanco (1943), Fernando Botero (1932), René Higuita (1966), Juan Manuel Santos (1951), César Gaviria (1947), Carlos Valderrama (1961), Shakira (1977), Sofía Vergara (1972), Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (1939), and Luis Garavito (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Colombia

Among writers born in Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez ranks 1. After him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Jorge Isaacs (1837), Fernando Vallejo (1942), José Eustasio Rivera (1888), Laura Restrepo (1950), and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (1973).

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