Gabriel García Márquez began his career as a journalist in Colombia, writing for newspapers where his reporting helped establish settings and characters for his future novels. While journalism inspired his early writing, literature became his passion. Some of his most famous novels like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" drew from Colombia's social and political struggles. Considered one of the most influential Spanish-language authors since Cervantes, García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and his works have been translated into over 40 languages and inspired millions of readers worldwide.