Fill in the Blanks Gabriel García MárquezOnline version In this activity, you will find a conversation between a journalist and a famous colombian writer. by Adriana Montañez 1 1960s writer Cholera 1982 Hundred novelists American Realist Nobel Solitude contemporary Márquez publication Pilgrims Gabriel García The most celebrated of all Colombian , García Márquez has achieved a level of worldwide fame and popularity which few contemporary novelists can match . He was the recipient of the Prize for Literature in and is considered the who kick started the Latin American Literature Boom in the late with the of his Magic novel One Years of . Since then he has released a host of critically acclaimed works , including the short story collection Strange and Love in the Time of . His legacy dominates Latin literature generally and Colombian literature in particular , however as we have seen many writers have an ambivalent relationship to his influence .