Which Colombian author wrote the novel 'The General in His Labyrinth'?

The Colombian author of The General in His Labyrinth is Gabriel García Márquez.

Published in Spanish in 1989 as El general en su laberinto, the novel fictionalizes the final journey of Simón Bolívar. It follows Bolívar during the last seven months of his life as he travels from Bogotá toward the Caribbean coast, hoping to leave South America for exile in Europe.

García Márquez combined extensive historical research with imaginative reconstruction. He drew on documents including the memoirs of Bolívar’s Irish aide-de-camp, Daniel Florencio O’Leary, while also inventing or interpreting private moments that conventional biographies could not fully document. The result is a historical novel rather than a straightforward biography.

The book challenged the traditional heroic image of Bolívar by depicting him as physically ill, prematurely aged, politically defeated, and mentally exhausted. García Márquez was already internationally celebrated for works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and later won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The other options are major Latin American writers, but none wrote this novel.