Magic Realism Authors
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Franz Kafka
Kafka was a Jewish Czech writer who wrote in the early 20th century in German, but in many ways his work prefigures the Magical Realist movement. That's because Kafka's texts are full of fantastic...
Gabriel García Márquez
If there's one author who's a superstar within Magic Realism, it's totally Gabriel García Márquez. He's the guy who made Magic Realism into a global phenomenon with the publication of his novel O...
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges was an Argentine writer famous for his short stories. The worlds in his stories mess with your head: they're incredible, they're complicated, and they raise all kinds of existential question...
Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's a South Asian writer famous for mixing historical facts and events with fantastic occurrences, specifically by writing about South Asian history with a magical perspective. He burst onto...
Isabel Allende
Allende was the first South American female writer to reach an audience on a global scale. She did it with the publication of her first book, The House of Spirits, in 1982, and since then, she's be...