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childhood
Hijo de Gabriel Eligio García y Luisa Santiaga Márquez, nació en Aracataca, departamento del Magdalena, Colombia, «el domingo 6 de marzo de 1927 a las nueve de la mañana...», como refiere el propio escritor en sus memorias.9 -
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illness and death
In 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
A few years ago I was subjected to a three-month treatment for a lymphoma,In April 2014, he was admitted to the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, in Mexico, D. F. -
education and adultes
Shortly after arriving in Sucre, it was decided that Gabriel should begin his formal education and was sent to a boarding school in [Barranquilla], a port at the mouth of the Magdalena River. -
His first and main publications
His first short story, The Third Resignation, was published in 1947 in a liberal newspaper in Bogotá called El Espectador. -
journalism
García Márquez began his career as a journalist while studying law at the university. In 1948 and 1949 he wrote for the newspaper El Universal de Cartagena. -
literary influences
In his youth, when he joined the Barranquilla group, Gabriel García Márquez began reading the work of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and more importantly, William Faulkner -
awards and honours
First Prize in the competition of the Association of Writers and Artists, for his story A day after Saturday (1955). -
marriage and family
During his student days, when he visited his parents in Sucre, he met Mercedes Barcha, also the daughter of an apothecary, at a student dance and decided right away that he had to marry her when he finished his studies. -
Fame
The world notoriety of García Márquez began when One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and in one week he sold 8,000 copies. -
Latest works
In 2003, García Márquez published the book of memories Vivir.Empieza with the life of my maternal grandparents and the loves of my father and my mother at the beginning of the century, and it ends in 1955 when I published my first book, La hojarasca.
