Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are
The Autumn of the Patriarch,
No One Writes to the Colonel,
Love in the Time of Cholera,
Living to Tell the Tale,
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic
One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.
