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His work "One Hundred Years of Solitude", published in 1967, is one of the most important novels in 20th century literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

GABRIEL GARCÌA MÀRQUEZ

Introduction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Master of Magical Realism.Recognized as one of the most important storytellers of the 20th century, Gabriel García Márquez became the highest representative of a literary style known as magical realism. Praised and criticized for his political views, Gabo, as he was familiarly known, won international applause for his work and in 1982 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE

He was born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Magdalena in Colombia and died on April 17, 2014, in Mexico City. Colombian writer and journalist. He was born and spent his early years in a Caribbean area in northern Colombia, which marked him especially because of its contrast with Bogotá and other areas of the country where he later lived. In 1947 he began to study Law, a career he abandoned to dedicate himself to journalism. His first articles were published in El Espectador and El Heraldo and he became a member of the so-called “Grupo de Barranquilla”, from whose hand he knew the work of the authors who would later influence him.

Date and place of birth.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC ORIGIN

FAMILY DATA

• The García family's economic situation was so delicate that, when the writer decided to dedicate himself body and soul to the universe of Macondo in his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), they owed nine months of rent and had no savings for the complete shipment of the novel to the publisher in Argentina.

• His father was Gabriel Eligio García, telegrapher and apothecary of the town and his mother, Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, daughter of Colonel Nicolás Márquez, liberal and veteran of the Thousand Day War, and Tranquilina Iguarán.

• The eldest García Márquez has never lost his simplicity. Nor did he forget his origin, much less his family. Gabito is very attentive and is very generous, although he does not like it to be said, he had ten Colombian Nobel brothers.

1. Initial studies.He attended high school in San José from 1940 and finished his high school at the Liceo de Zipaquirá College on December 12, 1946. He enrolled in the Law School of the National University of Cartagena on February 25, 19472. Higher studios. From a very young age in the capital of Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez studied law and journalism at the National University and began his first journalistic collaborations in the newspaper El Espectador.3. First jobs.He started working as a reporter for El Universal. In 1950, he gave up becoming a lawyer to focus on journalism and moved back to Barranquilla to work as a columnist and reporter for the newspaper El Heraldo.4. Fundamental contributions: A Colombian author who marked universal literature. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and recognized for works of Colombian literature such as the book One Hundred Years of Solitude, considered one of the great Hispanic classics of all time.

Trajectory of his life

García Márquez has received many awards, distinctions and tributes for his works, some of them are:- Cien años de soledad. - Crónica de una muerte anunciada. - El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. - Relato de un náufrago. - El amor en los tiempos del cólera.

Written works.

After several years fighting against lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed in 1999, Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City, a city that welcomed him for most of his life and where he wrote, for 18 months, One hundred years of solitude.

Death

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