Gabriel José García Márquez ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez ) Colombian is a writer , journalist , publisher, and political activist. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 . He contributed to Latin American literature coming into the spotlight of the world cultural public in the 1960s. He is considered the most famous author of magical realism, a genre in which myths and magic intertwine with the reality of everyday existence, and the most popular writer in Spanish since Cervantes.. It has always been identified with the cultural blends of Spanish, Negro and Indigenous traditions that flourished in Colombia. Although he later lived in Paris, Mexico, and elsewhere, in his books he constantly returned to the hot coastal areas, where the power of nature and legend continued to dominate the restraint of cold reason. [1] His 1967 book One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold tens of millions of copies and has been translated into more than 25 languages