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Date of Birth

6 March 1927, Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

Birth Name

Gabriel José García Márquez

Nickname

Gabo

Mini Biography

Major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Studied law and journalism in Bogotá and Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, was a foreign correspondent in Europe during the late 1950s, Cuba and N.Y. early 1960s, and a screenwriter, journalist and publicist in Mexico City during the 1960s. During the 1980s he moved to Mexico when restrictions where imposed on his continued traveling due to his left-view political views.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Marcos Eduardo Acosta Aldrete

Spouse

Mercedes Barcha

(27 March 1958 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).

Father of Rodrigo García.

The video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" is based on his short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982

His book Love in the Time of Cholera is featured as a major prop in Serendipity (2001).

Father of Gonzalo García Barcha.

Born to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, he was raised by his grandparents Nicolas Ricardo Márquez, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, and Tranquilinia Iguarán Cotes.

Worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Geneva, Poland, Hungary, Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, India and New York City.

His most successful novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985), which was made into the movie Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).

After learning that he suffered from lymphatic cancer in 1999, he wrote his autobiography "Vivir para contarla" ("Living to Tell the Tale", 2002).

Good friends with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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