Which Colombian author wrote the novel 'No One Writes to the Colonel'?

Which Colombian author wrote “No One Writes to the Colonel”? Gabriel García Márquez wrote it.

Originally titled El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, the work was written by the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. It was first published in a Colombian literary magazine in 1958 and appeared as a separate book in 1961. Although often called a novel in general discussion, it is more precisely described as a novella.

The story follows an impoverished retired colonel who waits for a government pension promised to him after the Thousand Days’ War. He and his asthmatic wife live under martial law and political censorship, while their dead son’s fighting rooster becomes a fragile symbol of hope. The colonel’s repeated wait for official mail gives the work its title and its quiet sense of institutional abandonment.

García Márquez drew inspiration from his grandfather, a colonel who never received the pension he had been promised. Unlike much of the author’s later fiction, this work is largely realist and contains little of the magical realism associated with One Hundred Years of Solitude. Its themes include poverty, political repression, dignity, and stubborn resistance.