GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian journalist, which is mainly devoted to literature. He born in Colombia in 1927 and die in Mexico in 2014. Some of his most important books are "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" and "El amor en los tiempos del cólera". He won the Novel Prize of literature in 1982 for his work "Cien años de soledad" which is the main reference of magical realism.

I like García Márquez because he transforms reality into a magical story, takes journalism further and turns it into literature, and was a very noble person, who did not go against his principles and had a very progressive and advanced mentality for his time.

My favorite book of him is "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes", because it portrays the reality of many old Latin American couples, but adds a bit of magic. I like the same thing about "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba", since it is frequent in his books to find old characters who suffer the consequences of a lonely and poor life.