Facts about Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Oprah Winfrey selected One Hundred Years of Solitude for her book club in 2024, introducing García Márquez's novel to a new generation of English-language readers.
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Translated into dozens of languages, One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered a foundational work of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Garcia Márquez reportedly wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude in a single sustained burst of creative work, neglecting his family's finances so severely that his wife had to manage creditors while he wrote.
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The novel won Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, with the Swedish Academy citing his magical realism as a defining achievement.
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Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude follows seven generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo.