biografia gabo

2. his real name was Gabriel José
de la Concordia García Márquez
was born in aracata on the March
6, 1927 was a writer, novelist,
short story writer, screenwriter,
editor and journalist Colombian. In
1982 he received the Nobel Prize
for Literature.

3. his most famous work, the
novel One Hundred Years of
Solitude is considered one of
the most representative of this
literary genre and even
believes that his success is
that such term applies to
literature since the seventies.

4. after the success of the university where Gabo bogotazo
conducted his study was on fire and had to close and
made ​​the decision to go to Cartagena to work and
engage as a columnist and reporter at the newspaper
the emerald mine.
fame Gabriel Garcia Marquez start when Hundred Years
of Solitude was published in June 1967 and within a
week sold 8000 copies. Thereafter, success was
assured and the novel sold a new issue every week,
going to sell half a million copies in three years. It was
translated into more than twenty languages ​​and won
four international awards. Success had come at last and
the writer was 40 when the world learned his name

5. In April 2014 he was admitted to the National
Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in
Mexico City, because of a relapse product of
lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed with
cancer in 1999 had affected a lung, lymph
nodes and liver. Garcia Marquez died on April
17, 2014.

6. one of his famous quotes is Life is not what
one lived, but what one remembers and
how to tell it reminds ¨ live to tell¨