Gabriel García Márquez: Quick Facts

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Born	March 6, 1927 • Colombia
Died	April 17, 2014 (aged 87) • Mexico City • Mexico
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1982)
Notable Works	“Living to Tell the Tale” • “Love in the Time of Cholera” • “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” • “News of a Kidnapping” • “No One Writes to the Colonel” • “One Hundred Years of Solitude” • “The Leaf Storm”

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