Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, best known for his literary masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. Born in 1927 in Colombia, García Márquez developed a distinctive writing style that combined magical realism with vivid storytelling. Throughout his career, he received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His works often explored themes of solitude, love, and the surreal, earning him a place as one of the most prominent Latin American writers of the 20th century.