"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Spanish: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes) and subtitled "A Tale for Children" is a short story by Colombian writer and author Gabriel García Márquez. The tale was written in 1968 and published in the May–June 1968 (VIII, 48) issue of the journal . The work was published in English in the New American Review 13 in 1971. It appeared in the 1972 book Leaf Storm and Other Stories. The short story involves the eponymous character who appears in a family's backyard on a stormy night. What follows are the reactions of the family, a town, and outside visitors. This story falls within the genre of magic realism.