Cien años de Soledad ( 1967) took him to be one of the most importan writer in Latin america and in the World. Affectionatly he is known like Gabo.
This superman of the letters was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia.
He grew up with his maternal grandparents till 8 years old.
In 1936 Gabriel was send to study to Barranquilla; place where he began to write his first literary steps.
For Marquez life in this city wasn’t the place that makes fell like in home, so he chose the solitude and the contact with books by Julio Verne, and Emilio Salgari.
In 1947 went to Bogotá to study laws. Here he meets new friends like the poet Alvaro Mutis and Plinio Apuleyo.
Soon he became a collaborator of El Emperador newspaper.
After 4 year he decided to travel to Barranquilla and there he worked like columnist of El Heraldo newspaper. Here he wrote his first novel “La Hojarasca” and meet to Mercedes Barcha his future wife.
His colleague of newspaper El Emperador, Alfonso Funmayor gets in to Gabriel in the literacy world of great authors like Ernest Hemingway, Faulker, Kafka and others.
In 1954 Gabo get back to Bogotá and worked again in El Espectador newspaper, also se used to write for newspapers of others countries.
One year later traveled to Europe like a newspaper reporter and stayed there for some years. In Paris he wrote “El Coronel no tiene quien lo escriba”. When he had traveled around all Europe he gets back to America and get job in a magazine in Venezuela.
In 1959 he gets married with Mercedes Barcha with whom he had two children.
Two years later he worked in New York like a newspapers reporter of the “Prensa Latina”.
En Few months later he was livin in Mexico working in a magazine and trying to introduce in the world of the movies like a script writer.
The wished time for Gabriel Garcia Marquez became reality as a result of months of hard work, when he wrote “Cien Años de Soledad” which was a successful work.
Already he was a famous writer and decided only write his owns works, obviously he had money to do this.
Being a name known he traveled for some countries exalting the respect of the human rights.
In 1982 he won the Nobel Prize of literature and obtained money which let him found the School of Movie of San Antonio de Baños in Cuba, place destined to stimulate and help to youth in the art of the movies.
In 1994 published his last novel “ Del Amor y Otros Demonios”
Last March 6 was the 80th birthday of Gabo and it is celebrated by the minister of culture of Colombia. He ordered the reconstruction of his natal house in Aracataca.
Actually it is known that he works in memories where his principal personage dies when he writes the last phrase of his work.
This superman of the letters was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia.
He grew up with his maternal grandparents till 8 years old.
In 1936 Gabriel was send to study to Barranquilla; place where he began to write his first literary steps.
For Marquez life in this city wasn’t the place that makes fell like in home, so he chose the solitude and the contact with books by Julio Verne, and Emilio Salgari.
In 1947 went to Bogotá to study laws. Here he meets new friends like the poet Alvaro Mutis and Plinio Apuleyo.
Soon he became a collaborator of El Emperador newspaper.
After 4 year he decided to travel to Barranquilla and there he worked like columnist of El Heraldo newspaper. Here he wrote his first novel “La Hojarasca” and meet to Mercedes Barcha his future wife.
His colleague of newspaper El Emperador, Alfonso Funmayor gets in to Gabriel in the literacy world of great authors like Ernest Hemingway, Faulker, Kafka and others.
In 1954 Gabo get back to Bogotá and worked again in El Espectador newspaper, also se used to write for newspapers of others countries.
One year later traveled to Europe like a newspaper reporter and stayed there for some years. In Paris he wrote “El Coronel no tiene quien lo escriba”. When he had traveled around all Europe he gets back to America and get job in a magazine in Venezuela.
In 1959 he gets married with Mercedes Barcha with whom he had two children.
Two years later he worked in New York like a newspapers reporter of the “Prensa Latina”.
En Few months later he was livin in Mexico working in a magazine and trying to introduce in the world of the movies like a script writer.
The wished time for Gabriel Garcia Marquez became reality as a result of months of hard work, when he wrote “Cien Años de Soledad” which was a successful work.
Already he was a famous writer and decided only write his owns works, obviously he had money to do this.
Being a name known he traveled for some countries exalting the respect of the human rights.
In 1982 he won the Nobel Prize of literature and obtained money which let him found the School of Movie of San Antonio de Baños in Cuba, place destined to stimulate and help to youth in the art of the movies.
In 1994 published his last novel “ Del Amor y Otros Demonios”
Last March 6 was the 80th birthday of Gabo and it is celebrated by the minister of culture of Colombia. He ordered the reconstruction of his natal house in Aracataca.
Actually it is known that he works in memories where his principal personage dies when he writes the last phrase of his work.
No doubt it is one of the most important this times.
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