The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is a 1968 short story by Colombian novelist, short story writer, screen writer and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez. He won a Nobel prize (1967) for his masterpiece of magic realism ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’. This short story is set on a summer day in a small coastal village in South America, it concerns the villagers’ reaction to the discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach. Though no one can identify the man, the villagers imagine who he might have been, and give him a ceremony reveling his life. As they plan, they weave a story about the man’s identity, which grows richer and more intricate until he seems animated and belonging to their world. Though Márquez is best known for his novels, the story is widely considered one of his greatest works. Márquez went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. "Th...