Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

male, 82 years old
nobel prize in literature, Latin American Boom, Alejo Carpentier, Short story writer, political activist, Nobel laureate in Literature…Magicrealismwriter, magical realism, fantasy writer, writer
Gabriel José García Márquez, also known as Gabo is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nob...
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

female, 50 years old
organic food, Magicrealismwriter, Whitbread Prize, napoleonic, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, BBC…LGBT writer, writer, Short story writer
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her...
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Adolfo Bioy Casares

male, deceased (1999)
writer, alcala de henares, science fiction writer, Premio Cervantes winner, French, argentine…Magicrealismwriter
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer. Bioy Casares was born in Buenos Aires, the grandson of a wealthy landowner and dairy...
Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

female (California)
Peruvian-American, Magicrealismwriter, bolivia, chilean, lima, naturalized citizen of the United States…writer, Chilean writer born in Peru in 1943. Her father
Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer born in Peru in 1943. Her father, who was serving as a Chilean diplomat in El Peru when Isabel was born, was the...
Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

male, 81 years old
latin american literature, Harvard University, aura, quito, University of Cambridge, panama city…Magicrealismwriter, writer
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as...
Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier

male, deceased (1980)
novelist, The Lost Steps, architect, Premio Cervantes winner, French, Cuban…Magicrealismwriter, writer
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 - April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin...
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
al qaeda target, the West, the east, Western world, magical realism, ayatollah…Magicrealismwriter
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Hubert Lampo

Hubert Lampo

male, deceased (2006)
writer, Magicrealismwriter, magic realism, from Antwerp, Belgium, Belgian writer in Dutch, Freemason
Hubert Lampo was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is "De komst van Joachim Stiller" ("The...
Tahar ben Jelloun

Tahar ben Jelloun

male, 65 years old
Magicrealismwriter, novelist, writer, Moroccan, From FES, Moroccan French
Tahar Ben Jelloun. In September 2006, Tahar Ben Jelloun was awarded a special prize for "peace and friendship between peoples" at Lazio between...

Mário de Andrade

male, deceased (1945)
Modernism, photographer, poet, novelist, writer, Polymath…Short story writer, Magicrealismwriter
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of B...