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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. He is considered one of the most important authors of magical realism and is best known for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for novels that combined fantasy and reality to reflect life in Latin America. He passed away in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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    Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. He is considered one of the most important authors of magical realism and is best known for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for novels that combined fantasy and reality to reflect life in Latin America. He passed away in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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    Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. He is considered one of the most important authors of magical realism and is best known for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for novels that combined fantasy and reality to reflect life in Latin America. He passed away in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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    Gabriel

    Garca
    Mrquez

    He was born in Aracataca , Colombia on


    March 6, 1927 and died in Mexico City on
    April 17 , 2014 , was a writer , novelist ,
    short story writer , screenwriter, editor
    and journalist Colombian. In 1982 he
    received the Nobel Prize for Literature ,
    is related inherently magical realism and
    his most famous work , the novel One
    Hundred Years of Solitude , is considered
    one of the most representative of this
    genre and even believes that his success
    It is that this term applies to literature
    since the seventies.

    Son of Gabriel Eligio and Luisa Garca Mrquez


    Santiaga , shortly after the birth of Gabriel , his
    father became a pharmacist and in January 1929,
    with Luisa moved to Barranquilla , leaving Gabriel in
    Aracataca the care of his maternal grandparents.
    Since I lived with them in the early years of his life he
    received a strong influence of Colonel Marquez, who
    killed young Medardo Pacheco in a duel and had , in
    addition to the three official children, nine with
    different mothers . Colonel , whom Gabriel called "
    Papalelo " , describing it as his " umbilical cord with
    history and reality " was also an excellent storyteller
    and taught , for example, often refer to the dictionary
    , took him to the circus each year It was the first to
    introduce his grandson in the "miracle" of ice, which

    The worldwide notoriety began when Garca Marquez One


    Hundred Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and
    within a week it sold 8000 copies. From then on , success was
    assured and the novel sold a new edition each 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 years old when
    the world learned his name .En 1999 he was diagnosed with
    lymphatic cancer .

    The main awards were:


    Nobel Prize. Garca Mrquez 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 in a calm world of rich imagination,
    reflecting the life and conflicts of a continent "ESSO Novel Prize
    for In Evil Hour (1961).
    Doctor honoris causa of the University of Columbia in New York
    (1971).
    Romulo Gallegos prize Hundred Years of Solitude (1972).
    Jorge Dimitrov Prize for Peace (1979).
    Medal of the Legion of Honor of France in Paris (1981).
    Aztec Eagle award in Mexico (1982).
    Prize forty years of the Circle of Journalists of Bogot (1985).
    Honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogot
    (1993).
    Museum: The March 25, 2010 the Colombian government
    finished rebuilding the house that Garca Mrquez was born in
    Aracataca, having been demolished 40 years ago, and it opened
    a museum dedicated to his memory with more than fourteen
    rooms that recreate the spaces in which he spent his children.
    39In East Los Angeles (California), in the municipality of Las
    Rozas de Madrid and Zaragoza (Spain) there are streets that
    bear his name.
    In Bogot the Economic Culture Fund of Mexico built a cultural

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