Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian writer, Nobel Prize winner, called the Cervantes of our time, has gained extraordinary popularity on all continents. “Nobody Writes to the Colonel”, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “Autumn of the Patriarch”, “Love in the Time of Cholera” and his other works are included in the golden fund of world literature. Sergei Markov, a famous international journalist and prose writer who had the opportunity to meet with García Márquez, as well as with other leaders of the “boom” of Latin American literature, for example Julio Cortazar, created the most complete biography of the great Colombian in Russian to date. Thanks to his acquaintance with close friends, comrades-in-arms, and enemies of his hero, S. Markov was able to take a fresh look at the complex, sometimes tragic collisions associated with the epoch-making split of the world in the 20th century into capitalist and socialist and the subsequent split among the largest writers. He did not ignore García Márquez’s long-term, largely mysterious friendship with famous personalities of the century: Fidel Castro, François Mitterrand, Olof Palme, other state leaders, as well as his connections with the USSR and Russia, his attitude towards the dictators of his time, his fight against terrorism , banditry, drug mafia... But first of all, this book, of course, is about the Latin American genius, whose work is permeated with passion, love, eroticism, and about his stormy, sometimes shocking, but beautiful and completely gushing energy life. sign of information products 16+