SHARING MY COUNTRY- HISTORICAL FIGURES OF

COLOMBIA.

JUAN PABLO ZAPATA RAMIREZ.

INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA HANS DREWS ARANGO

MATTER INGLES
GRADE 8ª
 THE GREAT GABRIEL GARCIA
 MARQUEZ.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March
6, 1927, he is the son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguaran. was a
writer, novelist, editor, and journalist.
 EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE.
 In 1940, thanks to a scholarship, he  He married Mercedes Barcha in March
entered the boarding school of the Liceo 1958, with whom he had two children
Nacional de Zipaquirá. Rodrigo who is a filmmaker and
Gonzalo who is a graphic designer.
 He began studying law at the National
University of Colombia, but moved to
the University of Cartagena.
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CAREER AS A JOURNALIST. CAREER AS LITERARY.
In 1948 and 1949 he wrote for the Universal
of Cartagena. From 1950 to 1952, he wrote
for another newspaper. In 1954, he returned
to Bogotá to work on the viewer.
Familiarly known by friends and family as
Gabito.
In the viewer began to publish stories, there were a
total of 15b stories, including:
Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of
Francis Macomber.
The inheritance of Matilde Arcángel, by Juan
Rulfo.
The monkey's paw, by W.W. Jacobs.
 The truth of the case of Mr. Valdemar, by Edgar
Allan Poe.
The Man in the Street, by George Simenon.
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HIS WORK.
MOST FAMOUS WORK.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude was
published on Tuesday, May 30, 1967, 3
decades later it had been translated into 37
languages ​and sold 25 million copies
worldwide.
OTHER WORKS.
 1961- The colonel has no one to write to him.
 1981- Chronicles of a death foretold.
 1970- Tales of a castaway.
 1985- Love in the time of cholera.
 1994- Of love and other demons.
 1995- How to tell a story.
 2002- Live to tell about it.
 THE NOBEL PRIZE.
 He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, according to the Swedish Academy, for
his novels and short stories.

OTHERS AWARDS.
• In 1955, first prize of the association of writers and artists.
• ESSO novel award in 1961.
• Doctor Honoris Causa from Columbia University in 1971.
• Medal of the Legion of Honor in 1981.
• Prize 40 years of the circle of journalists of Bogotá 1985.
 TRIBUTES.
 He was decorated in Mexico in 1982.
 He became a Member of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in 1993.
 They rebuild their house and create a Museum there, located in the Magdalena union.
 They create streets named after him, in Los Angeles located in Boyle Heights.
 A cultural center that bears his name was built, it is in the city of Bogotá.
 DEATH.
 He died on April 17, 2014 of lymphatic cancer, which was detected in 1999 In this regard,
the writer stated in an interview in 2000 to El Tiempo de Bogotá, The Colombian writer,
who died surrounded by his family, was cremated on April 19 and, three days later, he was
paid a national tribute at the Palacio de Bellas Artes de México, DF in a private act.