Country: Colombia
Birth: Aracataca, 6 March 1927
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez is one of the great novelists of the twentieth century reformer of Spanish literature and a key figure in the rise of so-called magic realism. Its importance as a storyteller was known worldwide in 1982, the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Raised in the village of Aracataca, Garcia Marquez had a childhood marked by the influence of his maternal grandfather, an army colonel and strong liberal convictions, until in 1936 he settled with his parents in Sincelejo although shortly after beginning his studies in Barranquilla.
Although he had published some texts, it is not until law school begins in Bogota who begins his true passion for literature. Following the closure of the university by the great riots of 1948, García Márquez moved to Cartagena and abandoned his studies to work as a journalist in several media, such as El Universal and El Heraldo.
Married in 1958 with Mercedes Bacha, García Márquez travel begins a journey that will lead correspondent of Barranquilla to New York and finally to Mexico. The affinity of the writer with the Cuban Revolution and his friendship with Fidel Castro hindered their stay in the United States and other countries in Latin America. From this period are his Colonel no one writes or the wrong time.
It was in 1967 when Gabriel García Márquez published one of her best known novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a work that has sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. The awards will be followed in subsequent years, Rómulo Gallegos, the Neustdat, and received critical acclaim internationally.
From One Hundred Years of Solitude, García Márquez’s literary career developed important works such as The Story of a wreck or The Autumn of the Patriarch, at the same time he published numerous essays, imbued with his politics.
In 1981 he established themselves with Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a novel tilting the balance in its favor the 1982 Nobel Prize. Come after other masterpieces like the smell of guava or Love in the Time of Cholera.
In his last works say that Memories of My Melancholy Whores big controversy raised by the treatment of prostitution and in 2010 published a comprehensive anthology of his lectures more interesting, under the title I am not here to make a speech.
Several of the works of Garcia Marquez have been made into films, although none as successfully as their literary equivalents. Maybe we should highlight the adjustments to the Colonel one writes or Love in the Time of Cholera.
The work of Gabriel García Márquez is considered essential to understanding Spanish literature in the twentieth century and its influence has spread to several generations of writers themselves breaking the language barriers.
List of Works
Novels
* In Evil Hour (1962)
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
* The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
* Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
* The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
Novellas
* Leaf Storm (1955)
* No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
* Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
* Of Love and Other Demons (1994)
* Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004)
Short story collections
* Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog) (1974)
* Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories (1978)
* Collected Stories (1984)
* Strange Pilgrims (1993)
Non Fiction
* The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)
* The Solitude of Latin America (1982)
* The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza)
* Clandestine in Chile (1986)
* News of a Kidnapping (1996)
* A Country for Children (1998)
* Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
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