Facts about Magic Realism Literature
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In magic realism literature, supernatural elements are presented matter-of-factly within realistic settings, a technique associated strongly with Latin American authors of the 20th century.
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, a celebrated work of magic realism, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and later the Booker of Bookers.
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Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, published in 1982, brought magic realism to international audiences through its multigenerational Chilean family saga.
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The term 'magic realism' was coined by German art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe a post-expressionist painting style before later being applied to literature.
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Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is widely regarded as the defining novel of magic realism, blending fantastical events with everyday Colombian life.