Gabriel

Garca
Mrquez

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 Garca Mrquez

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

The worldwide notoriety began when Garca 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. Garca Mrquez 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 Bogot (1985).
Honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogot
(1993).
Museum: The March 25, 2010 the Colombian government
finished rebuilding the house that Garca Mrquez 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 Bogot the Economic Culture Fund of Mexico built a cultural