The Resume

(March 6, 1928-April 17, 2014)
Born in Aracataca, Colombia
Resides in Mexico City
Wrote ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967),’ ‘The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970),’ ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981),’ ‘Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)’ and ‘Vivir para contrarla (2002)’

Why he might be annoying:

His writing style is rambling and dreamlike.
He was a nerdy child.
He was a bad student.
He chain smoked for many years.
He is friends with the Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
He took part in campus riots as a young man.
He set his own dorm building on fire.

Why he might not be annoying:

His grandmother scared the hell out of him with ghost stories as a child.
He had to flee Colombia after criticizing its government.
His books are commercially and critically successful.
He received the Nobel Prize for literature (1982).
He is slowly dying of lymphatic cancer.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 32)
• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 97)
• Cannes Film Festival Jury Members (Ranked: 1982)
• Celebrity Tottenham Hotspur Fans
• Colombians
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008] (Ranked: 17)
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I Died in 2014 (Ranked: 87)
• I Have Lymphomas [Hodgkin's & Non-Hodgkin's]
• I was Falsely Reported Dead
• I'm a Communist
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 33)
• Look at Me, I'm in the City
• Lycos' Top 8 Garcia Searches [May 2002] (Ranked: 2)
• Mustaches
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 15)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 74)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 2004)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 2007)
• Playboy Interview Subjects [1980s] (Ranked: 1983)
• Profiles 14751-15000 (Ranked: 14965)
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Walruses
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 6]
• World Literature Today Top 40 [2001] (Ranked: 1967)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 74 Votes: 64.86% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 21 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 169 Votes: 65.09% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 119 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 110 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 76 Votes: 72.37% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 62 Votes: 66.13% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 75.76% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 79 Votes: 65.82% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 97 Votes: 60.82% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 109 Votes: 56.88% Annoying