Gabriel García Márquez

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his real name was Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born in aracata on the March 6, 1927 was a writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, editor and journalist Colombian. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

his most famous work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered one of the most representative of this literary genre and even believes that his success is that such term applies to literature since the seventies.

after the success of the university where Gabo bogotazo conducted his study was on fire and had to close and made the decision to go to Cartagena to work and engage as a columnist and reporter at the newspaper the emerald mine.fame Gabriel Garcia Marquez start when Hundred Years of Solitude was published in June 1967 and within a week sold 8000 copies. Thereafter, success was assured and the novel sold a new issue every 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 when the world learned his name

In April 2014 he was admitted to the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City, because of a relapse product of lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed with cancer in 1999 had affected a lung, lymph nodes and liver. Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014.

one of his famous quotes is Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how to tell it reminds ¨ live to tell¨