Who translated 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' into English?

Gregory Rabassa translated Gabriel García Márquez’s *One Hundred Years of Solitude* into English. The original Spanish novel, *Cien años de soledad*, was published in 1967, and Rabassa’s English version followed in 1970.

Rabassa was an acclaimed American translator of Spanish- and Portuguese-language literature. García Márquez reportedly admired his work so much that he delayed reading the English edition of *One Hundred Years of Solitude* because he feared it might be better than the original. Rabassa’s translation helped introduce the novel’s intricate world of Macondo and the Buendía family to a broad English-speaking audience.

The novel traces several generations while blending political history, family legend, memory, prophecy, and supernatural events into a matter-of-fact narrative. It became a defining work of the Latin American Boom and one of the best-known examples of literary magic realism. Readers sometimes confuse Rabassa with Edith Grossman, another major translator of García Márquez, but Grossman translated later works, including *Love in the Time of Cholera*, not this novel.