Gabriel García Márquez

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Synopsis Born on 1928, writer Gabriel García Márquez grew up

listening to family tales. He grew up with his maternal grandparent who was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century.

Synopsis After college, he became a journalist. His work

introduced readers to magical realism, which combines facts and fantasy.

Synopsis

His novels “Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)” and ”El amor en los tiempos del cólera ”(Love in the Time of Cholera) have drawn worldwide audiences. He won a Nobel Prize in 1982.

Early Life Writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez was born

on March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia. Because his parents were still poor and struggling, his grandparents accepted the task of raising him, a common practice at the time.

Early Life "I feel that all my writing has been about the

experiences of the time I spent with my grandparents.“

Early Life

Considered one of the leading Latino writers, Márquez grew up listening to numerous family tales, such as his grandfather's war stories and his parents' dating adventures. He published his first story while in college and then became a journalist

Gabo’s first story

Magical Realism

García Márquez’s literary reputation is inseparable from the term magical realism, a phrase that literary critics coined to describe the distinctive blend of fantasy and realism in his (and many other Latin American authors’) work.

Magical Realism

"Magical realism expands the categorizes of the real so as to encompass myth, magic and other extraordinary phenomena in Nature or experience which European realism excluded"

García Márquez drew international acclaim for the novel Cien años de soledad (1967), which was later translated as One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Works With this book, he is credited with helping to

introduce the world to magical realism, a literary genre that combines facts and fantasy.

Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), also drew a worldwide audience. The work, partially based on his parents' courtship, is also known by its English title, Love in the Time of Cholera.

Later Years

In recent years, Gabriel García Márquez has explored his own life in his work. His memoir Vivir para contarla (2002), published the next year as Living to Tell the Tale, received warm reviews and accolades from critics and fans.

Later Years

In recent years, Gabriel García Márquez has explored his own life in his work. Throughout his career, García Márquez has won numerous awards and honors for his work, including the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Later Years

In 1999, García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Chemotherapy provided by a hospital in Los Angeles proved to be successful, and the illness went into remission. This event prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs.

Later Years ”I reduced relations with my friends to a minimum,

disconnected the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of current and future plans and locked myself in to write every day without interruption.”

Later Years In 2009, responding to claims by both his literary

agent and his biographer that his writing career was over, he told Colombian newspaper El Tiempo: "Not only is it not true, but the only thing I do is write".

Later Years In April 2014, García Márquez was hospitalized in

Mexico.

Later Years

García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City.

Later Years

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

Gabriel García Márquez

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