Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez, Nicknamed "Cabo" by his fans

and followers, he was born in 1927 in the town of
Aracataca in the municipality of the department of
Magdalena, near the Colombian Atlantic coast. His
parents, Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiago
Márquez, both get married, Cabo is born, and the
couple quickly moves to Barranquilla, leaving him under
the care of Colonel Márquez.
ultitude of the author's stories take place and is taught in
his first book that broke international barriers, One
Hundred Years of Solitude.
His family's military past was also an inspiration for the theme of militarism, honor
and gallantry that appears on several occasions in his stories, sometimes taking
center stage as in El otoño del patriarca, or sometimes as part of the subtext as in
Crónica de una muerte. announced. In 1936 his grandfather died and his
grandmother developed blindness, for which Cabo was forced to live with his
parents in Sucre, far from the coast.
By then he had already written his first three novels, La hojarasca in 1955, El
coronel no tiene que le escriba in 1961 and La mala hora in 1962. It was not until
five years later that García Márquez wrote his fourth novel, which changed his
mind. life. By then Gabo was already a well-traveled man and decided to live with
his wife and children permanently in Mexico City. It was there that he wrote and
published One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967. The rest was history. In the first
week it sold 8,000 copies. Each week after that, the book sold one edition each
week, eventually selling approximately 30 million copies.
to this day (the same amount as The Diary of Anne Frank) and has been translated
into 24 languages, nominating it for four international awards. He received the
Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
The economic success of the work gave free rein to the imagination of Márquez,
who wrote several classics from then on, such as Love in Times of Cholera (1985),
Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memory of my sad whores. (2004), his
latest novel. In 1999 in Mexico City, he was diagnosed with cancer that put his
health at risk and he stopped writing, finally dying in 2014. His themes such as
loneliness, magic and violence have resonated in the minds of millions of readers,
who still pay tribute to one of the greatest minds of international literature of the
20th century

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