Key Points

• Journalist, essayist, and writer of revolutionary narrative techniques

• One of the most significant representatives of the Latino-American Boom

• The hindsight bias of his life dominates much of his narrative

• Style that evolved from modernism to postmodernism

• His novels reconstruct in an obsessive and impressionistic way intimate or collective experiences

• Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010

Relevant Works

• La ciudad y los perros

• Conversación en la catedral

• La casa verde

• Pantaleón y las visitadoras

• La tía Julia y el escribidor

• El Paraíso en la otra esquina