Considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Gabriel Garcia Marquez reaffirmed the vigor of Latin American literature. His novels, notably “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967) and “Love in the Time of Cholera” (1985), received widespread critical praise and mass popular appeal. The Academy said it right when they announced that he was receiving the award "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."
