With the demise of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, the world has lost one of its greatest visionary writers whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to latin America's passion, superstitions, violence and inequality.
His novels and short stories basked in both realism and richly-composed imagination. They reflected a continent's life and conflicts. In 1967, he had written One Hundred Years of Solitude, which remains arguably his best known literary work, and whose millions of copies were sold in more than 25 languages.
Gabriel García Márquez’s career spanned more than six decades. Some of his other books, such as Chronicle of a Death Foretold, love in the Time of Cholera and Autumn of the Patriarch, sold like hotcakes. His books were the most read, with only the Bible beating him to the numbers in readership. The primary reason for his success was that he drew from his experiences and of those around him.