LATIN AMERICAN AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS

1. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (COLOMBIA)

 He was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known
affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
 Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best
in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for
Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works
and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of
Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), and Love in the Time of
Cholera (1985).

Work: One Hundred Years of Solitude

 a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the
multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio
Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.

2. JORGE LUIS BORGES (ARGENTINA)

 He was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key
figure in Spanish-language and universal literature.
 His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published
in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes,
including dreams, labyrinths, philosophy, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and
mythology.

Work: Ficciones

 It is the most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge
Luis Borges, produced between 1941 and 1956. The English translation
of Fictions was published in 1962, the same year as Labyrinths, a separate
compilation of Borges's translated works.

3. PABLO NERUDA (CHILE)

 He was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Neruda
became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of
styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a
prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his
collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). He won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1971.
 Work: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

 It is a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published
in 1924 by Editorial Nascimento of Santiago, when Neruda was 19. It was Neruda's
second published work, after Crepusculario (Editorial Nascimento, 1923) and made
his name as a poet.

4. MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (PERU)

 He is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor.
Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists,
and one of the leading writers of his generation.
 Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and
worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom.
 In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of
power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.

Work: The Time of the Hero

 It is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel
Prize in 2010. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at
the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The
novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership burned a large number of
copies and condemned the book as Ecuadorian propaganda against Peru.

5. OCTAVIO PAZ (MEXICO)

 He was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the
1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for
Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Work: The Labyrinth of Solitude

 It is a 1950 book-length essay by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. One of his most
famous works, it consists of nine parts: "The Pachuco and other extremes", "Mexican
Masks", "The Day of the Dead", "The Sons of La Malinche", "The Conquest and
Colonialism", "From Independence to the Revolution", "The Mexican Intelligence",
"The Present Day" and "The Dialectic of Solitude". After 1975 some editions
included the essay "Post data", which discusses the massacre of hundreds of Mexican
students in 1968.