One of this author's characters pricks her finger with a bunch of roses and leaves a "trail of blood in the snow" from Paris 
One of this author's characters pricks her finger with a bunch of roses and leaves a "trail of blood in the snow" from Paris to Madrid; another of his characters is a poet who wins a prize for making the comparison "light is like water." Those two characters are two of twelve Strange Pilgrims that this author wrote about. One of this author's characters watches the title character even while she is cutting onions, until that character is no longer an annoyance, but a dot on the horizon. That story is about a village that resolves to paint its walls a brighter color after attaching holy water and nails as relics to the title figure, whom they decide to call Esteban. A different story by this man begins with Pelayo about to throw crabs into the sea, until he sees the title figure, who is put into a coop where Father Gonzaga speaks Latin to him. For 10 points, name this author of "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the Entire World" and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," who also wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
One of this author's characters pricks her finger with a bunch of roses and leaves a "trail of blood in the snow" from Paris to Madrid; another of his characters is a poet who wins a prize for making the comparison "light is like water.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez