a colombian novelist and journalist. passed away on 17 april 2014 from pneumonia. his style of writing is known as magical realism.
he received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982.

i read '100 years of solitude' last year. it was written in 1967. the magical realism is the fundamental style of writing in this novel. this novel tells the story of a few generations of a family, and i believe it was loosely based on the writer's own family. i was introduced to this book only after reading bill clinton's autobiography. it is one of bill clinton's favourite novels.

have you read it yet?