What Buenos Aires publisher first issued One Hundred Years of Solitude?

Editorial Sudamericana first issued One Hundred Years of Solitude in Buenos Aires.

Gabriel García Márquez’s novel was published in May 1967 by the Argentine publisher Editorial Sudamericana. Its first edition introduced readers to Macondo, the fictional Colombian town where the Buendía family’s multigenerational history unfolds through cycles of love, violence, political upheaval, memory, and solitude.

The book quickly became a defining work of the Latin American Boom. Its matter-of-fact treatment of ghosts, prophetic manuscripts, miraculous ascensions, and extraordinary weather helped make García Márquez’s version of magical realism internationally influential. The original Spanish title is Cien años de soledad.

Editorial Sudamericana is sometimes confused with later publishers that issued important Spanish-language or translated editions, including Seix Barral and Harper & Row. Those later editions do not change the answer to the question about the first Buenos Aires publisher. The novel’s first English translation, by Gregory Rabassa, appeared in 1970.