Gabriel García Márquez
- Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
- García Márquez, affectionately known as Gabo throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century.
Early life
- Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez was born March 6, 1927.
- When his parents fell in love, their relationship met with resistance from Luisa Santiaga Marquez's father, the Colonel.
- Gabriel Eligio García was not the man the Colonel had envisioned winning the heart of his daughter: he (Gabriel Eligio) was a Conservative, and had the reputation of being a womanizer.
- He was brought up by his grandparents who had an important influence on his education.
Success
- In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
- He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism.
- He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
- From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics.
- Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
- His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations.
- Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Illness
- Gabriel García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1999.
- His impeding death was was incorrectly announced by Peruvian daily newspaper in 2000.
- Later newspapers published Garcia Marquez’s alleged farewell poem, “La Marioneta” (“the puppet”).
- However shortly afterwards García Márquez denied being the author of the poem.
- In fact, it was was the work of a Mexican ventriloquist. The poem is republished below. I think it may constitute a very good piece of material to teach English.
Works
Novels
- In Evil Hour 1962
- One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967
- The Autumn of the Patriarch 1975
- Love in the Time of Cholera 1985
- The General in His Labyrinth 1989
- Of Love and Other Demons 1994
Novellas
- Leaf Storm 1955
- No One Writes to the Colonel published 1961 in Spanish (written in 1956-1957)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores 2004
Short Story Collections
- Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories 1978
- Collected Stories 1984
- Strange Pilgrims 1993
Non Fiction
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor 1970
- The Solitude of Latin America 1982
- The Fragrance of Guava 1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
- Clandestine in Chile 1986
- News of a Kidnapping 1996
- A Country for Children 1998
- Living to Tell the Tale 2002
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