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BIOGRAPHY OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQEUZ

Gabriel Jos Garca Mrquez was born in Aracataca (Colombia) in 1928. Gabriel Garcia

Marquez was born with the talent of write and composes poetry, books. But during his life he

did a lot of things in the art world.

When he was young, he attended high school in San Jose in 1940 and completed his secondary

education at the Lyceum Zipaquir College on 12 December 1946. He was going to studied

law so he enrolled at the Faculty of Law, National University of Cartagena on February 25,

1947, but without showing much interest in the studies. He thought he would be a good lawyer

but His passion was to express and convey their experiences in writing either through novels,

poetry or in some newspaper columns.

So Gabriel Garca Mrquez decided to do the things that He was really interested the art of

writing. His friendship with the doctor and writer Manuel Zapata Olivella allowed him access

to journalism. Immediately after the "Bogotazo" (the assassination of Liberal leader Jorge

Eliecer Gaitan in Bogota, the subsequent protests and the brutal repression of them), began

their collaboration in the liberal newspaper El Universal.

He had begun his career working for local newspapers from a young age and later resided in

France, Mexico and Spain. In Italy he studied experimental filmmaking Center. Since 1953

works in Barranquilla newspaper El Nacional its columns reveal a constant concern and

unblemished expressive style that reflects vocation, as he himself confessed, the influence of

gregueras Ramon Gomez de la Serna. His writing career begins with a short novel, which

shows the strong influence of American writer William Faulkner: La hojarasca (1955). In

1961 he published El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. In 1962, brings together some of his

stories-eight in all, under the title ofLos funerales de Mam Grande, and publishes his novel

La mala hora.

But all the previous workCien aos de soledadis only one approach to the overall project and

will be much more ambitious than just this great novel.

After this book, the author published, in their own words, would his favorite novel, El otoo

del patriarca (1975). Later publish the stories La increble historia de la cndida Erndira y

de su abuela desalmada(1977), and Crnica de una muerte anunciada (1981), short novel

based on a real event of love and revenge that takes on dimensions of legend through a

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narrative development of an accuracy and intensity unsurpassed. His next major work,Amoren

tiempos de colera, published in 1987.

In 1982 he was awarded no less than deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature. Upon

completion of his previous novel returns to the interview with Miguel Littin, Clandestine in

Chile (1986), writes a theatrical text, Diatriba de amor para un hombre sentado (1987), and

retrieves the theme of Latin American dictator in El general en su laberinto ( 1989), and even

brings some scattered stories entitled Doce cuentos peregrinos (1992). Again, in his later

works, we see the conjunction of love and sentimental novel with the story: so in Del amor y

otros demonios (1994) y Noticia de un secuestro (1997). He has also published books of

chronicles, film scripts and several volumes of his collected articles: Textos costeos, Entre

cachacos, Europa y Amrica y Notas de prensa.

Recently, the Alfaguara publishing house has published a comprehensive biography of Gabriel

Garca Mrquez, Viaje a la semilla, Dasso Saldivar. Finally, who cares the direct voice of

Garca Mrquez may consult the book of interviews El olor de la papaya (1982). Or better

yet, successive large volumes that constitute the author's autobiography, Vivir para contarlo

the exercise of which, according to Garcia Marquez himself is basically a guarantee to

maintain "the hot arm" between two novels.

Whit this huge list of works that Gabriel Garca Mrquez did during his career; He is

recognized as one of the bigest writers in Latinoamerica and aroud the world.