2. He was born in March
06, 1927 at
Aracataca,
Magdalena,
Colombia and died in
April 17, 2014
3. Gabriel José de la Concordia
García Márquez was a
Colombian novelist, short-story
writer, screenwriter and
journalist. Familiarly known as
"Gabo" in his native country,
was considered one of the most
significant authors of the 20th
century. In 1982, he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature.
4. He studied at the University of
Bogotá and late worked as a
reporter for the Colombian
newspaper El Espectador . He
wrote many acclaimed non-
fiction works and short stories,
but is best-known for his
novels, such as One Hundred
Years of Solitude (1967) and
Love in the Time of Cholera
(1985).
5. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8
December 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which
the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly
composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life
and conflicts". His acceptance speech was entitled "The
Solitude of Latin America". García Márquez was the first
Colombian and fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize
for Literature.
6. -"La hojarasca"
-"Cien años de soledad" (Nobel de
literatura)
-"El amor en los tiempos del colera"
-"El coronel no tiene quien le escriba"
-"Los funerales de Mama Grande"
-"Cronica de una muerte anunciada"
-"Vivir para contarla" (su autobiografia)
7. -"Relato de un naufrago"
-"Del amor y otros demonios"
-"Ojos de perro azul" (cuentos)
-"El otoño del patriarca"
-"El general en su laberinto" (biografia
novelada de Simon Bolivar)
-"La mala hora"
-"Doce cuentos peregrinos"
-"Memoria de mis p.utas tristes" (su ultima
novela)
8. 1954 - LANGOSTA AZUL / Colombia / Alvaro
Cepeda Samudio.
1964 - EL GALLO DE ORO / México /
Roberto Gavaldón.
1964 - EN ESTE PUEBLO NO HAY LADRONES
/ México - Alberto Isaac.
1965 - TIEMPO DE MORIR / México / Arturo
Ripstein.
1965 - LOLA DE MI VIDA / México / Miguel
Barbachano.
1966 - JUEGO PELIGROSO / México /Arturo
Ripstein.
1968 - PATSY MI AMOR / México / Manuel
Michel.
9. 1980 - ERENDIRA / México / Ruy Guerra.
1985 - TIEMPO DE MORIR / Colombia / Jorge Alí Triana.
1986 - CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA / Italia-
Colombia / Francesco Rosi. 1988 - SERIE AMORES DIFICILES
/ Televisión Española
1988-89 UN SEÑOR MUY VIEJO CON UNAS ALAS ENORMES /
Cuba- España / Fernando
Birri.
1989 - ME ALQUILO PARA SOÑAR / España-Brasil / Ruy
Guerra.
1996 - EDIPO ALCALDE / Colombia-España / Jorge Alí
Triana.
1999 - El CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA / México-
España-Francia / Arturo Ripstein.
10. Since Gabo was eighteen, he had wanted
to write a novel based on his grandparents'
house where he grew up. However, he
struggled with finding an appropriate tone
and put off the idea until one day the
answer hit him while driving his family to
Acapulco. He had to sold his car so his
family could eat while he was writing but
it took more that he thinks , so his family
was without any money . Fortunately
when the book was finally published in
1967 it became his most commercially
successful novel, One Hundred Years of
Solitude, which sold more than 30 million
copies.
11. After writing One Hundred Years of
Solitude García Márquez returned to
Europe, this time bringing along his family,
to live in Barcelona, Spain, for seven
years. The international recognition García
Márquez earned with the publication of
the novel led to his ability to act as a
facilitator in several negotiations between
the Colombian government and the
guerrillas.
12. ESSO Novel Prize for Evil Hour (1961)
Rómulo Gallegos Prize for One Hundred
Years of Solitude (1972)
Nobel Prize for Literature (1982)
Award forty years of the Association of
Journalists of Bogotá (1985)
13. In an interview with Claudia Dreifus in
1982 García Márquez notes his relationship
with Castro is mostly based on literature:
“Ours is an intellectual friendship. It may
not be widely known that Fidel is a very
cultured man. When we’re together, we
talk a great deal about literature.”
14. The problem start in 1976 during a meeting of writers
in Mexico, when Vargas Llosa punched the Colombian,
leaving the purple left eye and ending a friendship than
a decade.
The reason for the dispute has been an enigma to the
press and even the biographers of both winners of the
Nobel Prize, Vargas Llosa said in Venezuela that the
secret will keep in save.
"It's a pact between García Márquez and me. He
respected until death and I will do the same," said
Vargas Llosa
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18. He died the 17 april of 2014 .
A passage in his life, famously recounted
by himself during the International
Congress of the Spanish Language in
Cartagena de Indias in 2007, reveals a risk
factor for health: cigarette use.
19. Admirers of the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez paid
their last respects to the Colombian-born writer at a
memorial service held in his honor Monday in Mexico
City.
Thousands of people lined up outside the Palace of
Fine Arts for the chance to view the urn containing
the Nobel laureate's ashes, while a musical trio
played the vallenato folk music of Garcia Marquez's
native Colombia. The palace was decorated with
yellow roses, a favorite of the author.
