Which Colombian author wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

Gabriel García Márquez wrote the Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Published in Spanish in 1967 as Cien años de soledad, the novel follows the Buendía family across several generations in the fictional town of Macondo. Its blend of extraordinary events with ordinary life helped make García Márquez a defining figure of magical realism and the Latin American literary boom.

The book draws on Colombian history, including civil conflict, foreign corporate influence, labor unrest, and the 1928 Banana Massacre. García Márquez transformed these historical realities into a family saga filled with recurring names, cyclical time, political violence, and supernatural episodes treated as everyday facts.

A common mix-up is confusing García Márquez with Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, or Mario Vargas Llosa. All are major Latin American writers, but this particular novel belongs to García Márquez, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.