Which Colombian author wrote 'Love in the Time of Cholera'?

The Colombian author who wrote 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was originally written in Spanish and first published in Colombia in 1985.

Its Spanish title is 'El amor en los tiempos del cólera.' The story follows Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, whose youthful romance is interrupted when Fermina marries Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Decades later, the novel revisits their relationship in old age, making time, memory, desire, and mortality central themes.

The setting is an unnamed Caribbean port city near the Magdalena River, shaped by details associated with Cartagena and Barranquilla. Despite the title, cholera functions as both a literal historical presence and a metaphor that echoes the symptoms and intensity of romantic passion.

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927 and became one of the leading figures of the Latin American Boom. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. The English translation by Edith Grossman appeared in 1988.