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Gabriel García Márquez
Writing One Hundred Years of Solitude.
One Hundred Years of Solitude · Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Born
- 6 March 1927
- Birthplace
- Aracataca, Colombia
- Died
- 17 April 2014
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist and journalist. His fiction combines family memory, political history and extraordinary events related with the same assurance as everyday life.
Early life
Grandparents’ stories
Spent early childhood with his maternal grandparents in Aracataca.
Law to journalism
Began studying law before turning towards reporting and fiction.
Career
- 1940s–1950s
Newspaper work
Worked as a reporter and published early stories.
- 1961 onward
Mexico City
Settled in Mexico and developed his major novels.
- 1967
International breakthrough
One Hundred Years of Solitude reached a large international readership.
- 1982
Nobel Prize
Received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Selected work
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Buendía family’s generations unfold in the town of Macondo.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A killing is reconstructed through an entire community’s knowledge.
Love in the Time of Cholera
A story of love, waiting and the passage of decades.
Beyond work
Journalism
Remained committed to reporting and helped establish a foundation for journalism in Latin America.
Family
Married Mercedes Barcha in 1958; they had two sons.
Sources & photo credit
Life and career ↗Institutional or specialist reference ↗Photo: Jose Lara. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
