Gabriel García

Márquez

He was born in Aracataca , Colombia on March 6, 1927 and died in Mexico City on April 17 , 2014 , was a writer , novelist , short story writer , screenwriter, editor and journalist Colombian. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature , is related inherently magical realism and his most famous work , the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude , is considered one of the most representative of this genre and even believes that his success It is that this term applies to literature since the seventies. 

Son of Gabriel Eligio and Luisa García Márquez Santiaga , shortly after the birth of Gabriel , his father became a pharmacist and in January 1929, with Luisa moved to Barranquilla , leaving Gabriel in Aracataca the care of his maternal grandparents. Since I lived with them in the early years of his life he received a strong influence of Colonel Marquez, who killed young Medardo Pacheco in a duel and had , in addition to the three official children, nine with different mothers . Colonel , whom Gabriel called " Papalelo " , describing it as his " umbilical cord with history and reality " was also an excellent storyteller and taught , for example, often refer to the dictionary , took him to the circus each year It was the first to introduce his grandson in the "miracle" of ice, which was in the store of the United Fruit Company.  

The worldwide notoriety began when García Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and within a week it sold 8000 copies. From then on , success was assured and the novel sold a new edition each week , going to sell half a million copies in three years. It was translated into more than twenty languages and won four international awards. Success had come at last and the writer was 40 years old when the world learned his name .En 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer .

The main awards were:

Nobel Prize. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, according to the laudatory of the Swedish Academy, "for his novels and short stories, in which fantasy and reality are combined in a calm world of rich imagination, reflecting the life and conflicts of a continent "ESSO Novel Prize for In Evil Hour (1961).

Doctor honoris causa of the University of Columbia in New York (1971).

Romulo Gallegos prize Hundred Years of Solitude (1972).

Jorge Dimitrov Prize for Peace (1979).

Medal of the Legion of Honor of France in Paris (1981).

Aztec Eagle award in Mexico (1982).

Prize forty years of the Circle of Journalists of Bogotá (1985).

Honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogotá (1993).

Museum: The March 25, 2010 the Colombian government finished rebuilding the house that García Márquez was born in Aracataca, having been demolished 40 years ago, and it opened a museum dedicated to his memory with more than fourteen rooms that recreate the spaces in which he spent his children.

39In East Los Angeles (California), in the municipality of Las Rozas de Madrid and Zaragoza (Spain) there are streets that bear his name.

In Bogotá the Economic Culture Fund of Mexico built a cultural center that bears his name, opened on January 30, 2008