Gabriel
José de la Concordia García Márquez – Gabriel García Márquez, was
born on March 6, 1927 in Aracatana (Colombia)
His
parents were Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez.
He
was raised by his grandparents ; the colonel Nicolas Márquez and
Tranquilina Iguaran; they were his first influence on his writings.
In
1936, when his granfather died, Gabriel moved to his parents' house in Sucre and he studied at a boarding school in
Barranquilla.
From
1940 he studied at San José school where he wrote his first romances for the school journal.
After his graduation, in 1947, he lived in Bogotá for studying Law at the National University of Colombia. In 1947, he published his first short story La
tercera resignación in the newspaper El Espectador.
In
1948 Gabriel gave up law studies and started to work as a reporter and
writer.
He married Mercedes Barcha in 1958 and they had two sons: the oldest one, Rodrigo, was born in 1959; and the youngest one, Gonzalo, was
born in 1962. Rodrigo is a movie director and Gonzalo is a graphic
designer.
García Márquez is best known for his novels, such as Cien años de
soledad (1967), El otoño del patriarca (1975)
and El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985). Most
of his books are based or set in his birth place, Aracataca. He
mostly wrote books about realism or magical realism. His themes included solitude and violence.
In
1982, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels
and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are
combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a
continent's life and conflicts".
García
Márquez was appointed mediator at the talks for peace between the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and the Colombien government
in Cuba, and between the “Belisario Betancourt” government and
the group Movimiento 19 de Abril (M-19).
García
Márquez wrote his last book in 2004. He retired in May 2008 because
of his age and health.
In April, 2014 García Márquez was internee in the Instituto de
Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición in Mexico DF, for the relapse of the lymphatic cancer diagnosed in 1999.
Gabriel
García Márquez died in Mexico DF, on April 17, 2014.
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said about García Márquez:
“The writer was the Colombian who put further and higher the name of our land in all the history of our
country".
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