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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, on 6 March, 1927, and died in Mexico City on 17 April, 2014. García Márquez was one of the 20th century’s most important Latin American authors and a leading exponent of the magic realism movement. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, he takes us to a magical and imaginary Caribbean city, Macondo, where the events surrounding seven generations of the Buendia family, whose forefather José Arcadio founded the city, take place.