"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece novel written by-

Gabriel García Márquez(1927-2014):

-He was one of the best-known Latin American writers in history.
- Born: March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia.
- Death: April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude)

One Hundred Years of Solitude:
(Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲoz ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez .
- It tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo.
- The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in literature

[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]