GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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BiographyGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born March 6, 1927, is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is one of Latin America's most famous writers. In his early years he was strongly influenced by his grandfather who raised him. As he grew, he pursued a highly self-directed education that resulted in his quitting law school in order to begin a career in journalism. Early in this career he demonstrated he had no inhibitions to be critical of politics within Colombia and beyond. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha and they have since had two sons together. Although he started out as a journalist, he has also written many acclaimed non-fiction works, and short stories, and is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He has achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism in which he uses certain magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works take place in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, and in 1982 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Bibliography
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Colombia