The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

* 1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer ( b. 1888 )

* 1888 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer ( d. 1928 )

* Rafael Pombo ( 1833 – 1912 ) Colombian fabulist, poet and writer.

Vicente Rojas Lizcano whose pseudonym was Biófilo Panclasta, was a Colombian individualist anarchist writer and activist.

* 1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer ( d. 1940 )

* 1917 – Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer ( d. 1977 )

* 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer ( b. 1951 )

* March 4 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer ( b. 1951 )

** Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer ( d. 1977 )

* January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer ( b. 1883 )

** José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer ( b. 1888 )

** Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer ( d. 1942 )

** Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist

** José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer ( d. 1928 )

In June 2010, Adamari López was seen publicly on various occasions with Colombian writer Andres López López.

Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra ( December 25, 1812 – May 21, 1882 ) was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist of Colombia.

* June 19 — Salvador Camacho, Colombian economist, politician and writer ( born 1827 )

Another writer to blend fact with fiction was the Colombian writer Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, who made Gary Gilmore one of the main characters of his 1992 National Prize Novel Opio en las Nubes.

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor ( original Spanish-language title: Relato de un náufrago ) is a work of non-fiction by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

* Our Lady of the Assassins ( novel ) of the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, published by Alfaguara, Bogotá, 1993 in Spanish.

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez is sometimes incorrectly referred to in English media as Mr. Márquez, when it should be Mr. García Márquez or, simply, Mr. García.

Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.

** Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author

* The novel Historia secreta de Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, tells the fictional story of José Altamirano, the Colombian " informant " of Joseph Conrad that the Polish-born author all but erased from his famous tale.

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Marquez is also regarded as a notable exponent of this kind of fiction — especially his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Ospina's name was suggested for the 1946 elections to take advantage of the division the opposing Colombian Liberal Party was having within its lines between Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and Gabriel Turbay.

Also in the city that day was another young man who would become a giant of 20th century Latin-American history: Colombian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

No One Writes to the Colonel () is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

* Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer

Strange Pilgrims ( original Spanish-language title: Doce cuentos peregrinos ) is a collection of twelve loosely-related short stories by the Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

The General in His Labyrinth ( original Spanish title: ) is a novel by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

Luis Gabriel Rey Villamizar ( born February 20, 1980 in Bucaramanga ) is a Colombian football striker, who currently plays for Jaguares de Chiapas on loan from Monarcas Morelia of the Primera División de México.

* Nickname of Gabriel García Márquez ( born 1927 ), Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

* Gabriel García Márquez ( born 1927 ), Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist

* Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist and Nobel Laureate

* Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel prize-winning author

The Government responded by sending in the Military to quell the protests and arrest the labour workers accused of instigating the strike, what happened next is known as the banana massacre where an undetermined number of people were killed by the Colombian Army ; this event was recounted by Gabriel García Márquez in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

There he started his friendship with the Colombian group of the Mito magazine ( composed of Jorge Gaitán Durán, Gabriel García Márquez, Eduardo Cote Lamus, Hernando Valencia Goelkel, Pedro Gómez Valderrama and Fernando Charry Lara, among others ).

Her participation in Miss Venezuela also became notorious when she was asked during the traditional " breakfast with press " the day after the pageant, because of her degree, which Venezuelan playwright she liked the most, to which she answered, " Gabriel García Márquez ", a Colombian writer.

* Several of the Ramblers ' songs, such as " Cent ' anni di solitudine ", " Macondo Express ", and " Remedios la Bella " are inspired by the 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Spanish: Cien años de soledad ) by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez.

Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.