The late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published his most famous work,

One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1967. The novel tells the story of seven
generations of the Buendía family and follows the establishment of their town
Macondo until its destruction along with the last of the family’s descendents. In
fantastical form, the novel explores the genre of magic realism by emphasizing the
extraordinary nature of commonplace things while mystical things are shown to be
common. Márquez highlights the prevalence and power of myth and folktale in
relating history and Latin American culture. The novel won many awards for Márquez,
leading the way to his eventual honor of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for
his entire body of work, of which One Hundred Years of Solitude is often lauded as
his most triumphant.