Gabriel García MárquezBy : Diego Fernández

Biography• He was born the 6 of March of 1927 in Aracataca ( Magdalena ).

• He learn to write at 5 years old in Montessori of Aracataca’s school, with his teacher Rosa Elena Fergusson.

Family

• Its grandparents and uncles lived with him because their parents left him at the age of 5 years and they went to lived at Sucre.

Studies

• In 1947, he was forced by their parents to study law in the National University of Bogota

• His teacher was Alfonso López Michelsen

Barranquilla Group

• In the early forties he began to take part in Barranquilla, a kind of association of friends of the literature that was called Barranquilla Group.

• At that time the Group of Barranquilla, Gabriel García Márquez read the great Russian writers, English and American, and perfected his direct style of journalism, but also in the company of his three inseparable friends, carefully analyzed the new American journalism.

Literature and journalism

• In February 1954, Gabriel García Márquez was integrated into the writing of The Spectator, where he initially became the first Colombian film columnist journalism, then brilliant writer and reporter.

• In 1955 he won the award in the contest of the Asosiation of writters and artists.

Travelling for the World

• He lived a long time in Paris, and toured Poland and Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

• He write 2 novels: “el coronel no tiene quien le escriba”  y “La mala hora”

• His stay in Europe allowed Garcia Marquez see Latin America from another perspective.

• He pointed out the differences between Latin American countries and also took a lot of material to write stories about Latinos living in the city of light.

• In1957 he was linked to Time magazine and traveled to Venezuela, where he was able to witness the last moments of the dictatorship of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

• In 1959 he was appointed director of the newly established Cuban news agency Prensa Latina. In 1960 lived six months in Cuba and the following year he was transferred to New York, but had big problems with Cuban exiles and finally resigned.

His wife and children

• In March 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla, from which union were born two children: Rodrigo (1959), baptized Palermo Clinic in Bogotá by Camilo Torres Restrepo, and Gonzalo (1962).

The Consecration

• In 1967 appeared “Cien años de soledad”, novel whose universe is cyclical time in the fantastic stories that happen: Insomnia plagues, floods, excessive fertility, levitation ...

Novel Prize for Literature

• On the morning of October 21, 1982, García Márquez received news that Mexico long ago expected by that time: the Swedish Academy awarded the coveted Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Since the news of obtaining the prize was known, a group of journalists and media was permanent and commitments multiplied.

• However, in March 1983 Gabo returned to Colombia. In Cartagena were waiting Santiaga Dona Luisa García Márquez, at his home in Santa Clara Alley.

Last Book

• After years of silence, in 2002 Gabriel García Márquez presented the first part of his memories, “Vivir para contarla”, which reviews the first thirty years of his life.

Death

• He died the 17 of April of 2014 in Mexico City, after a relapse lymphatic cancer for which he had been treated in 1999.