Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1927. He spent his early childhood in Aracataca being raised by his maternal grandparents before moving with his parents to Sincelejo. García Márquez began his career as a journalist in 1948 while studying law at university. He wrote for newspapers in Cartagena and Barranquilla. His most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published in 1967 and sold over 8000 copies within the first week, bringing him global fame. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for combining fantasy and reality in his novels and short stories that reflected life in Latin America.

1. GABRIEL GARCÍA
MÁRQUEZ
BY WILBER MEDINA

2. BIRTH
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez Aracataca, March 6,
1927.
Shortly after the birth of Gabriel, his father became a pharmacist
and, in January 1929, with Luisa moved to Barranquilla, leaving
Gabriel Aracataca the care of his maternal grandparents.

3. CHILDHOOD
Son of Gabriel Eligio García son and Luisa Márquez
Iguarán Santiaga. He lived with his
grandparents, parents, Luisa Santiaga, during the first
years of his life, was strongly influenced by Colonel
Márquez, who Young killed a man in a duel and had, in
addition to the three official children, nine with
different mothers.
His grandfather died in 1936 when Gabriel was
eight, and because of the blindness of his grandmother
he went to live with his parents in Sincelejo
(Sucre, Colombia), where his father worked as a
pharmacist.

4. EDUCATION
García Márquez attended the early grades
of school in the Jesuit school of San José
(San José Institute today) since
1940, Then, thanks to a grant from the
Government, Gabriel was sent to study in
Bogota.

5. YOUTH
After 24 years of absence, in 2007 he
returned to Aracataca for a tribute
paid to him by the Colombian
government to fulfill its 80 years of life
and 40 from the first publication of
One Hundred Years of Solitude.

6. LITERARY CAREER AS A JOURNALIST
García Márquez began his career as a
journalist while studying law at
university. In 1948 and 1949 he wrote for
El Universal in Cartagena. From 1950 to
1952, he wrote a "whimsical" column
under the pseudonym of "Septimus" for
the local paper El Heraldo de
Barranquilla.

7. FAME
The global notoriety began when Garcia Marquez One Hundred
Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and within a week
sold 8000 copies

8. BOOKS
His first story, The third resignation, was published in 1947 in
a liberal newspaper called El Espectador in Bogota. A year
later, he began his journalism work for the same newspaper.
His first works were all stories published in the same journal
from 1947 to 1952. During these years he published a total
of fifteen stories

9. CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD
Cien años de Soledad is a key novel
in two aspects: one involving his
successful appearance in the
panorama of contemporary
literature, and based on which the
advent of Macondo and the Buendia
centennial saga caption field as
unavoidable reference to collate the
fascinating subject of fictional
worlds.

10. CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA
Crinica de una muerte
the more "realistic"
work of Gabriel García
Márquez, it is based on
a historical event
happened in the
homeland of the writer.

11. DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS
The October 26, 1949 Gabriel
García Márquez reporter was
sent to the former convent of
Santa Clara, which was to be
demolished to build upon it a five
star for this emptying of the
burial crypts and cover the story.

12. AWARDS, HONORS AND TRIBUTES
García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1982, according to the laudatory of the Swedish Academy, "for his
novels and short stories, in which fantasy and reality are combined
into a tranquil world of rich imagination, reflecting the life and
conflicts of a continent.