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40 Magical Realism Authors to Know

Including authors Louise Erdrich, Gabriel García Márquez, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Laura Esquivel, and Carlos Fuentes

Authors who contrast reality with magical elements often make effective social critiques.

“A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.”—Haruki Murakami

Magical realism is a style of literature depicting the real world as holding an undercurrent of magic or fantasy. The genre of “magic realism” shows supernatural or magical phenomena taking place in an otherwise real-world or mundane setting.

What makes it different from fantasy is that magical realism includes a lot of realistic detail and employs magical elements to make a point about reality. On the other hand, fantasy stories are generally separated from reality.

Below are several authors known for writing magical realism who are popular at it…

  1. Gabriel García Márquez

  2. Salman Rushdie

  3. Haruki Murakami

  4. Alejo Carpentier

  5. Isabel Allende

  6. Toni Morrison

  7. Laura Esquivel

  8. Jorge Luis Borges

  9. Carlos Fuentes

  10. Franz Kafka

  11. Aimee Bender

  12. Sarah Addison Allen

  13. Kelly Link

  14. Neil Gaiman

  15. Angela Carter

  16. Alice Hoffman

  17. Yann Martel

  18. Milan Kundera

  19. Karen Russell

  20. Nikolai Gogol

  21. Italo Calvino

  22. Massimo Bontempelli

  23. Umberto Eco

  24. Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  25. Joanne Harris

  26. Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  27. Mikhail Bulgakov

  28. Viktor Pelevin

  29. Nick Joaquin

  30. Natsuki Ikezawa

  31. Louis de Bernières

  32. Janet Frame

  33. Peter Høeg

  34. Steven Millhauser

  35. Charles de Lint

  36. Ben Okri

  37. Paulo Coelho

  38. Jonathan Carroll

  39. Louise Erdrich

  40. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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