"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is a magical realist short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and first published in Spanish in 1968. His magical realist novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is often celebrated as his highest achievement. Another one of his most famous novels is Love in the Time of Cholera, which was adapted into a film in 2007.
Other magical realist writers of note are Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, and Nick Joaquin. Marquez was also part of the Latin American Boom, a sudden upsurge in interest from Europeans in the 60's and 70's in South and Latin American literature. Other writers associated with this moment are Julio Cortázar of...
