There are several compendiums in English about the life and work of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, that help to amplify our understanding of his influence.

On Gabriel García Márquez / --Biography of GabrielGarcía Márquez / -- The Paris review perspective / -- Gabriel García Márquez: cultural and historical contexts / -- The master of Aracataca / -- Remedios the child bride: the forgotten buendía / -- García a Márquez's investigation of Cold War Soviet Europe: its Cervantine invocation / -- The master of short forms / -- Magic realism and García Márquez's Eréndira / -- "The paralysis of the instant": the stagnation of history and the stylistic suspension of time in Gabriel García Márquez's La hojarasca / -- A "gyrating wheel" / -- The dark side of magical realism: science, oppression, and apocalypse in One hundred years of solitude / -- Superstition, irony, themes / -- Intertextualities: three metamorphoses of myth in The autumn of the Patriarch / -- Biblical justice and the military hero in two novels of Gabriel García Márquez / -- The dangers of gullible reading: narrative as seduction in García Márquez Love in the time of cholera / -- Lessons from the golden age in Gabriel García Márquez Living to tell the tale / Efraín Kristal. On Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez -- Biography of GabrielGarci´a Ma´rquez -- The Paris review perspective -- Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez: cultural and historical contexts -- The master of Aracataca -- Remedios the child bride: the forgotten buendi´a -- Garci´a a Ma´rquez's investigation of Cold War Soviet Europe: its Cervantine invocation -- The master of short forms -- Magic realism and Garci´a Ma´rquez's Ere´ndira -- "The paralysis of the instant": the stagnation of history and the stylistic suspension of time in Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez's La hojarasca -- A "gyrating wheel" -- The dark side of magical realism: science, oppression, and apocalypse in One hundred years of solitude -- Superstition, irony, themes -- Intertextualities: three metamorphoses of myth in The autumn of the Patriarch -- Biblical justice and the military hero in two novels of Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez -- The dangers of gullible reading: narrative as seduction in Garci´a Ma´rquez Love in the time of cholera -- Lessons from the golden age in Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez Living to tell the tale.