biography of gabriel garcía márquez

He was born on He entered a boarding

March 6, 1927 in
the Caribbean
town of Aracataca.
He was the eldest
of 11 siblings from
a humble family.
school in 1940 and after
completing his secondary In 1955 he
education he studied for published Married in 1958 to
a lawyer but abandoned "La Mercedes Barcha
his career and began to Hojarasca"
devote himself to
journalism in the 1950s.

died on He published his last In 1972 he was

Thursday, April book, a novel, awarded the Rómulo On May 30, 1967, he
17 at home "Memoria de mis Gallegos Prize for published his
putas tristes" in 2004. "One Hundred Years masterpiece "One
of Solitude". Hundred Years of
Solitude".