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Gabriel José García Márquez was born in Aracataca (Colombia) in 1927. He studied
secondary school in San José starting in 1940 and finished his baccalaureate at the
Colegio Liceo de Zipaquirá on December 12, 1946. He enrolled in the Law School
of the National University of Cartagena on February 25, 1947, although without
showing excessive interest in studies. His friendship with the doctor and writer
Manuel Zapata Olivella allowed him access to journalism. Immediately after the
"Bogotazo" (the assassination of the liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in Bogotá,
the subsequent demonstrations and their brutal repression), they began their
collaborations with the liberal newspaper El Universal, which had been founded in
March of that year. same year by Domingo Lopez Escauriaza.
He had started his professional career working at a young age for local newspapers;
later he would reside in France, Mexico and Spain. In Italy he was a student at the
Experimental Center for Cinematography. During his stay in Sucre (where he had
gone for health reasons), he came into contact with the group of intellectuals from
Barranquilla, among whom was Ramón Vinyes, former owner of a bookstore who
was to have a notable influence on intellectual life. of the years 1910-20, and who
was known by the nickname of "the Catalan" -the same one that will appear in the
last pages of the most famous work of the writer, One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967). Since 1953 he has collaborated with the Barranquilla newspaper El Nacional:
his columns reveal a constant expressive concern and a strong vocation for style
that reflects, as he himself will confess, the influence of the greguerías of Ramón
Gómez de la Serna. His writing career began with a short novel, which shows the
strong influence of the American writer William Faulkner: Leaf Storm (1955). The
action takes place between 1903 and 1928 (date of the author's birth) in Macondo,
a mythical and legendary town created by Garcia Márquez. In 1961 he published
The colonel has no one to write to him, a story in which recurring themes already
appear. In 1962, he collected some of his stories under the title Los funerales de
Mama Grande, and published his novel La mala hora. Many of the elements of his
stories take on an unusual interest when they are integrated into One Hundred Years
of Solitude. In which Márquez builds and gives life to the mythical town of Macondo
(and the legendary lineage of the Buendías): an imaginary territory where the
improbable and magical is no less real than the everyday and logical; this is the basic
postulate of what would later be known as magical realism. It has been said many
times that, deep down, it is a great American saga. In short, a novelized synthesis
of the history of Latin American lands. On an even broader plane it can be seen as
a parable of any civilization, from its birth to its decline.
After this book, the author published what, in his own words, would be his favorite
novel: The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), which would be followed by the book of
stories The Incredible Story of the Candid Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
(1977), and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981).

Love in the time of cholera was published in 1987.

In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Once he finished his previous novel, he returned to reportage with Miguel Littin,
clandestine in Chile (1986), wrote a theatrical text, Diatribe of love for a sitting man
(1987), and recovered the theme of the Latin American dictator in The general in his
labyrinth (1989), and even brings together some scattered stories under the title
Twelve Pilgrim Tales (1992). Of love and other demons (1994) and News of a
kidnapping (1997). In 2002, Garcia Márquez published the memoir Living to Tell Her,
the first of three volumes of her memoirs. The novel, Memory of My Sad Whores,
appeared in 2004
In 2007, the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the
Spanish Language launched a popular commemorative edition One Hundred Years
of Solitude.

He died on April 17, 2014.