Q 01/05

Gabriel García Márquez was a writer and journalist from which country?

A) Peru

B) Colombia

C) Mexico

D) Venezuela

Answer · why

B) Colombia

Colombia's Caribbean coast, where he grew up, is where most of his fiction is set, even though he spent most of his adult life living abroad.

Q 02/05

By what affectionate nickname was García Márquez known to friends and readers alike?

A) Gabi

B) Gabo

C) Gabri

D) Gabrielo

Answer · why

B) Gabo

Gabo is what he insisted even visiting journalists call him, and the journalism foundation he set up in Cartagena now carries the nickname as the Fund...

Q 03/05

García Márquez's Nobel lecture was titled "The Solitude of" what?

A) The Caribbean

B) Latin America

C) The Andes

D) The New World

Answer · why

B) Latin America

Latin America, he told Stockholm, is judged by European yardsticks that only leave its people "ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary".

Q 04/05

Which literary style is García Márquez credited with popularising?

A) Minimalism

B) Magic realism

C) Naturalism

D) Stream of consciousness

Answer · why

B) Magic realism

Magic realism reports the impossible in a deadpan voice, a tone he traced to his grandmother, who told ghost stories as if they were plain fact.

Q 05/05

What is the name of the fictional village where many García Márquez works are set?

A) Macondo

B) Comala

C) Santa María

D) Yoknapatawpha

Answer · why

A) Macondo

Macondo nearly became a real place name: in 2006 the author's home town voted on adopting it, and over 90% said yes, but too few people turned out for...