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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

March 6th, 1927 - April 17th, 2014

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Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude.

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Name Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Date of Birth March 6th, 1927
Date of Death April 17th, 2014
Home Town Aracataca, Magdalena, CO 
Other City Mexico City, D.F., MX 
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Geolocation 45.516514699999995, -73.6869203
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1946 - 1947 National University of Colombia, Law
1948 - 1949 Journalist, El Universal
1950 - 1952 Journalist, El Heraldo
1958 Marries Mercedes Barcha
1967 Writes 100 Years of Solitude
1973 - 2014 Novelist
1981 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1982 Nobel Prize
1985 Love in the Time of Cholera
1992 - 1997 Founder, Founder

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