In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

A poet who wrote exclusively about the inhabitants of a northwestern city of this country did so in such volumes as Difficult Situations and For the Shortcut. In the nineteenth century, a Jewish author from this country described Efrain's heartbreak after returning home from medical school in London to see his cousin in the romance Maria. One author from this country wrote a "gothic tale from the hot lands" before a series including Snow of the Admiral and The Tramp Stamer's Last Port of Call featuring the recurring character of (*) Maqroll the Lookout. This home country of Luis Carlos Lopez, Jorge Isaacs, and Alvaro Mutis is also home to an author who wrote a novel where everyone is ordered to wake up at three in the morning in order to distract a politician from the beautiful Manuela Sanchez, and a man who may be 232 years old is eaten by vultures. For 10 points, name this country where novels such as The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera were written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Literature