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Widely considered the
most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the
17th century, his books blended the everyday with fantasy elements such
as a boy born with a pig's tail and a man trailed by a swarm of yellow
butterflies.
"One Hundred Years of
Solitude" was "the first novel in which Latin Americans recognized
themselves, that defined them, celebrated their passion, their
intensity, their spirituality and superstition, their grand propensity
for failure," biographer Gerald Martin told The Associated Press.
When
he accepted the Nobel prize in 1982, Garcia Marquez described Latin
America as a "source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and
beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher
more, singled out by fortune."
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