In one of this man's stories, Ulises stabs a green-blooded old hag to free the title character, who then flees from him across the desert.
In one of this man's stories, Ulises stabs a green-blooded old hag to free the title character, who then flees from him across the desert. Another of this author's characters recalls his love affair with Manuela Saenz while making a last trip with his servant Jose Palacios down the Rio Magdalena. In his most recent novel, a ninety-year-old man decides to deflower a young (*) virgin. One of this author's protagonists abandons his 14-year-old charge and lover  America Vicuna, who commits suicide, to pursue his true love, formerly married to Juvenal Urbino. This author created such characters as Santiago Nasar, Fermina Daza, Remedios the Beauty, and Colonel Aureliano Buendía in his more famous novels. For 10 points, name this author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In one of this man's stories, Ulises stabs a green-blooded old hag to free the title character, who then flees from him across the desert.
Gabriel {García Márquez} (prompt on partial last name)