Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer called Cervantes of our time, has gained extraordinary popularity on every continent. "Nobody writes to the colonel," "One hundred years of loneliness," "Autumn of the Patriarch," "Love in time of cholera" and his other works were included in the golden fund of world literature. Sergei Markov, a well-known international journalist, prose writer, who happened to meet with Garcia Marquez, 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 today.