Which Colombian author was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature and popularized the genre of 'magical realism' with his 1967 masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. Gabriel García Márquez

  1. Step 1: A central figure of the Latin American literary 'Boom', this author blended historical political violence with mythic, supernatural elements treated as everyday reality.
  2. Step 2: Gabriel García Márquez created the fictional town of Macondo and traced seven generations of the Buendía family across a century of cyclical solitude and wonder.
Answer
Gabriel García Márquez
Why not the others: 'Jorge Luis Borges' Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine master of philosophical short stories, labyrinthine labyrinths, and metafictional essays (such as 'Ficciones'); 'Mario Vargas Llosa' Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian novelist who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels such as 'The Feast of the Goat'; 'Pablo Neruda' Pablo Neruda was a celebrated Chilean poet who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, famous for 'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'.

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