Facts about Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism
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Beloved works like Love in the Time of Cholera demonstrate García Márquez's technique of presenting supernatural or impossible events in a calm, matter-of-fact narrative tone.
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In 1982, Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Swedish Academy citing magical realism as central to his recognized body of work.
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The term magical realism itself predates García Márquez, originating in art criticism before being applied to Latin American literature.
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García Márquez credited William Faulkner's Southern Gothic style as a major influence on his development of magical realism in Latin American fiction.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, García Márquez's landmark 1967 novel, is widely considered the defining work of magical realism in Latin American literature.