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Born
Gabriel García Márquez is the most important Colombian writer, knowed like Gabo or Gabito. He was born in March 6th of 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena, in the Colombian Caribe. -
Studied Law
He studied Law in the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, then, He moved for the Cartagena’s University, but He abandonment the carrer for the big love that He felt for the literature. -
Influences
Some of writes that him influenced was Franz Kafka, Juan Rulfo, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote y Jorge Luis Borges. -
Columnist
In his youth, He writed opinion columns in the Cartagena’s Newspaper El Universal and the Newspaper El Heraldo, about reads, music and film, and others topics. On January, 1954, He started in the newspaper El Espectador like columnist and reporter. -
First book and cinema
He published his first book La Hojarasca in May, 1955. More later, He studied a film directing course at the Cinematographic Experimental Center in Rome. -
Work abroad
García Márquez was a writer, Screenwriter, editor and Colombian journalist. He worked in the venezuelan magazine Momentos. From 1959 to 1961, He was in the Press Latin Agency, It created the Cuban government. -
Family
On March 27, 1958, at 11 a.m., He married with Mercedes Barcha in the Perpetuo Socoro Church to Barranquilla. The couple had two children: Rodrigo and Gonzalo. -
Mexico
He arrived to Mexico in 1961 and there, He was anonymous editor of the Magazine Family and the Newspaper Sucesos para todos. Two years after, He writed film scripts and He worked for publicity agency’s like Thompson y McCann Erikson. -
Cien años de soledad
On June 5th, 1967, He published the first edition of Cien años de soledad, the novel that told the saga of Buendia Family at Macondo’s village. The book was traduced to 47 languages. García Márquez was important in the Latinoamericano Boom of the literatura, He knowed for the Realismo mágico of his 42 books. -
Castro y Doctorate
In differents moments, He used his fame for some politics causes and He was part of an organization for the defense of human rights. He had a left-wing magazine called Alternativa and He was very close to Cuban Ex-president Fidel Castro. On 1971, He received a doctorate honoris cause in Letters the University Columbia of New York. -
Back to Colombia
He back to Colombia On April 11th, 1983 and On 1985 received the Prize 40 years of Circle of Journalists of Bogota. On 1992, He created the QAP news, together with his friends Enrique Santos Calderón, María Isabel Rueda y María Elvira Samper. Also, He created the Fundation for a New Iberoamerican Journalism (FNPI) and He bought the Cambio Magazine to It dedicated to publisher of reports. One of his speeches more famous was “Journalism: the better job of World”. -
Last book
On 2004, He published “Memoria de mis putas tristes”, the novel last of Colombian writer and On 2010, It published Yo no vengo a decir un discurso, a compilation of the speeches during his life. On April 17th, 2014, a Holy Thursday, Gabriel García Marquez died in his home of Ciudad de México.
