GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

IMPORTANT DATES

• Born March 6, 1927
• Died April 17, 2014 at age 87

EARLY LIFE

• He was born in Aracataca, Colombia
• Attended Universidad Nacional de Colombia

ACHIEVEMENTS

• He was the author of many novels and short stories
• His most popular were 100 years of solitude, autumn of the Patriarch, and a chronicle of death foretold.

ACHIEVEMENTS CONT.

• He won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972
• Won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982

MID LIFE

• Married to Merced Barcha Pardo
• Father of Gonzalo and Rodrigo

LATER LIFE

• In 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer
• In 2012 he started showing signs of dementia
• He died in Mexico, City Mexico in 2014

IMPORTANT FACTS

• He started out as a journalist
• His nicknames were ‘Gabo’ or ‘Gabito’
• When diagnosed with cancer, he cut off all communications to finish writing his trilogy of memoirs undisturbed.

IMPORTANT FACTS CONT.

• Some of his novels were adapted into operas and movies
• He lived in Spain with his family for seven years.
• He and his wife met in college

IMPORTANT FACTS CONT.

• Gabriel was one of the original founders of QAP, a newscast that aired between 1992 and 1997
• He actually studied law in college.

IMPORTANT FACTS CONT.

• His parents were Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez
• He was most raised by his grandparents.

RESOURCES

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_Márquez

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