Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was born March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a village in Colombia. He is the son of a telegraph operator, Gabriel Eligio Garcia, and a young daughter of the local bourgeoisie, Santiaga Luisa Marquez. But he was really raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, Nicolas Marquez Iguaran, a former colonel, was his companion and confidant. The grandmother, Tranquilina Iguaran Cotes, nervous woman, visionary, entered the night in his room and terrorized by his ghost stories. The house and its atmosphere will form part of many stories and novels. In 1936, he studied at the College of Barranquilla, then a boarding Zipaquira where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1946.
In 1947, a law student at the University of Bogota. He published in his new El Espectador: The third resignation , the first of a series written from 1947 to 1952.
After the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the university is closed, he joined his family in Cartagena, where he worked El Universal, newly founded.
Became a journalist in El Heraldo de Barranquilla, he befriends Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, Plinio Mendoza and Alvaro Mutis. During those years of studious bohemian, he discovers Faulkner. Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Kafka. Joyce.
He writes leaves in the storm that will be published in 1955. Reporter for El Espectador in Bogota (from February 1954), he relates particularly humorous tribulations of marine Luis Alejandro Velasco (1955, reissued in 1970 under the title story of a shipwrecked ).
Sent to Europe in July 1955, he went to Geneva, then to Rome, where he enrolled at the Experimental Centre of Cinema. A few months later the closure of the newspaper by the dictator Rojas Pinilla, the surprises in Paris. Soon penniless refugee on the top floor of a hotel in the Latin Quarter, he worked at La mala hora (published in 1962), which separates a constituent part No One Writes to the Colonel (review Mito, 1958: first edition in 1961 ).
In 1958, he visited East Germany, the Soviet Union, Hungary, stayed back to Paris and then London and Caracas, before reaching Colombia, where he married Mercedes Pardo Marcha.
Shortly after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, he opened in Bogota, with Plinio Mendoza, currency news agency Prensa Latina, where he then worked in Havana and New York. Resigned in June 1961, he moved to Mexico, wrote scripts and news from The Great Grandma’s funeral (1962). In 1965 he began writing One Hundred Years of Solitude whose publication in Buenos Aires in April 1967, soon earned him fame across Latin America and soon in Europe.
In Barcelona, ??where he lived from 1968 to 1974. appeared in 1972 and the Incredible Sad History of candid Erendira and her grandmother diabolical. Active supporter of Latin American revolutionary movements, it finances with a big literary prize (Romulo Gallos 1972) Election of MAS campaign in Venezuela, Colombia to collaborate in the founding of the weekly Alternativa (1974) and wrote the novel Baroque policy: The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975). In 1978, he created the foundation for Habeas defending human rights and political prisoners in Latin America and in this meeting for the Pope and the King of Spain (1979).
Become universal and popular for the originality and fecundity of his creative imagination, he sees, in April 1981, his novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold , published simultaneously in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Barcelona, ??reached a first printing of two million copies. Nobel laureate in 1982, it is also the author of Love in the Time of Cholera (1986) and a fiction of the last days of Bolivar: The General in His Labyrinth (1989).