His most prolific years coincided with a turbulent period in much of Latin America, where right-wing dictators and Marxist revolutionaries fought for power.
Chaos was often the norm, political violence ripped some countries to shreds and life verged on the surreal. Magical realism struck a chord.
"In his novels and short stories we are led into this peculiar place where the miraculous and the real converge. The extravagant flight of his own fantasy combines with traditional folk tales and facts, literary allusions and tangible - at times obtrusively graphic - descriptions approaching the matter-of-factness of reportage," the Swedish Academy said when it awarded Garcia Marquez the Nobel Prize in 1982.
Like many of his Latin American literary contemporaries, Garcia Marquez became increasingly involved in politics.
He spent time in post-revolution Cuba and developed a close friendship with Fidel Castro, to whom he sent drafts of his books.
The United States banned Garcia Marquez from visiting for years after he set up the New York branch of Cuba's official news agency and was accused of funding guerrillas at home.
He once condemned the US war on drugs as "nothing more than an instrument of intervention in Latin America" but he became friends with former US president Bill Clinton.
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