Published in 1967, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude describes multiple generations of the Buendia family in the fictional town of Macondo. The Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author of the novel is

Isabel Allende is a renowned Chilean author known for her works such as The House of the Spirits, but she is not the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Allende's writing often intertwines personal and political themes, but she does not share the same literary background as García Márquez.

Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American author recognized for her novels such as In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. While she has made significant contributions to literature, she is not associated with One Hundred Years of Solitude or the magical realism genre that defines García Márquez's work.

Octavio Paz was a distinguished Mexican poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. While he is a significant figure in Latin American literature, his works are primarily poetry and essays, not novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American author well-known for her novel The House on Mango Street. Although she has made important contributions to literature focusing on Hispanic culture and identity, she is not the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.