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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A novel story-teller and a polemical journalist who received a Novel prize in 1982. Garcia Marquez: PERSONAL INFORMATION: Nationality: Colombian. Born: 6 March 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia. Education: Attended Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1947-48, and Universidad de Cartagena, 1948-49. Family: Married Mercedes Barcha in 1958; children: two sons. Career: Worked as a journalist, 1947-65, including job with El heraldo, Baranquilla, Colombia; film critic and news reporter, El espectador, Bogota, Colombia, Geneva, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, and Paris, France, Prensa Latina news agency, Bogota, 1959; writer since 1965. Founder, Cuban Press Agency, Bogota; Fundacion Habeas, founder, 1979, president. Mediator between Colombian government and leftist guerrillas in early 1980s. Awards: Colombian Association of Writers and Artists award, 1954, for "Un dia despues del sabado"; Premio Literario Esso (Colombia), 1961, for La mala hora; Chianciano award (Italy), 1969, Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger (France), 1969, and Romulo Gallegos prize (Venezuela), 1971, all for Cien aos de soledad; LL.D., Columbia University, 1971; Books Abroad Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 1972; Commonwealth award for Literature, Bank of Delaware, 1980; Nobel prize for literature, 1982; Los Angeles Times Book prize for fiction, 1988, for Love in the Time of Cholera. Member: American Academy of Arts and Letters (honorary fellow), Foundation for the

New Latin American Film (Havana; president, since 1985). Agent: Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells, Diagonal 580, Barcelona 21, Spain. Address: Apartado Postal 20736 Deleyacion Alvaro bregon 01000, Mexico. His grandfather was a masterful storyteller, and Garcia Marquez grew up fascinated by the tales and myths about the region and its people that his grandfather loved to tell him. Shortly after completing high school near Bogota in 1946, he began studying law and published his first story in 1947 in a Bogota newspaper. His first novel, La hojarasca (1955, tr. Leaf Storm, 1972), was published in Bogota during this period; in 1955 he traveled to Europe and settled in Paris, where he devoted himself to writing fiction and worked on two novels, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1961, tr. No One Writes to the Colonel, 1968) and La mala hora (1962, In Evil Hour (1980). He began to write Cien Aos de Soledad (One hundred years of solitude) in 1965 and finished it in 1967, it is translated to English in 1970 making his arrival to the international scene. Attracted to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, in 1959 he wrote for Cuba's Prensa Latina in Bogota, Cuba, and New York, and he remains a friend and supporter of Fidel Castro to this day. Masterpiece: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967, tr. 1970), the most widely read and admired Latin American novel of its time, has had a major influence on writers and critics, bridging traditional gaps between highbrow and lowbrow, serious and popular, fiction. It also is one of the finest exemplars of MAGICAL REALISM a fictional mode often associated

With contemporary Latin American writings after translated to English in 1970 it made his arrival to the international scene. One Hundred Years of Solitude is distinguished by its intricate and epic distortions of time, particularly by its extension of characters lives beyond plausible expectation, conferring on them the haunting burden of solitude suggested in the title and typical of the experience of many Garcia Marquez characters most notably, of Colonel Aureliano Buendia. In this novel Garcia Marquez reflects Colombian history. The Buendia family becomes the focus of Marquezs elaboration of the interning cycles which successive generations of the family many of them named after each other seem fated to repeat for at least a hundred years. This is the novel that made him win the Literature Nobel Prize This novels setting in the small town of Macondo, which first appeared in Leaf Strom, established it as a fictional territory that resonates as powerfully as Faulkners Yoknapatwpha County for May readers. Not as well known as his major novels, Cronica de Una muerte anunciada (1981, tr. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1982) is a masterful novella that ranks with the finest works in any language in this difficult form. Based on an actual murder in defense of a family's honor--and thus a somber interrogation of this code, among other things--the novella is narrated by a reporter who tells the story from the perspective he shapes after the murder has taken place. The telling of the story seems to confirm the melancholy inevitability of the killing's coming to pass, and the fates of the characters become at once social and narrative imperatives. Beautifully constructed and strikingly vivid, Chronicle of a Death Foretold embeds a condemnatory anatomy of social mores in its seemingly

pieced-together chronicle of the events leading to the killing of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario brothers. I actually read this novel and I thought that I was in Colombia and the way that he writes in this novel made me fell like it happened in real life and I could imagine everything like if I was there and saw them. It is important to note the great influence that Faulkner had on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is revealed in The Autumn of the Patriarch and Leaf Storm Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez writings address The Church and Latin American Politicians. He shows some inclination for moderated socialism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the best novelist in Latin America. Many critics compare Cien Aos de Soledad (One Hundred years in Solitude) to Don Quijote de la Mancha

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Chronology: 1927 Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Born in Aracataca (Magdalena, Colombia). On the 6th of March 1947 Begins his Law career in Bogota. Published his first story. 1948 El "Bogotazo" provoked the closing of the Universidad; Garcia Marquez transferred to Universidad de Cartagena, but did not finish his studies. Begins his Journalism career 1950 Hired at the newspaper El Heraldo from Barranquilla and take active participation in the literary gatherings from the named grupo de Barranquillas (Barranquillas Group). Traveled with his Mother to Aracataca to sell the familys house where he was born and feels that his true passion is to write about that childish world. 1954 Hired at the newspaper El Expectador (The Expectator). 1955 Published his first novel La hojarasca (Leaf Storm) that he began to write in 1950. The publication of: Relato de un Naufrago (The story of a Shipwrecked Sailor) Serials in El Expectador is censored by Rojas Pinillas Regime and Garcia Marquez goes to exile. 1958 In the magazine Mito (Myth) publishes El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba ( No One writes to the Colonel),book that he finished in January 1957 in Paris. He married in Barranquilla to Mercedes Barcha 1962 Published the novel La mala hora y recopilacion de cuentos (Bad hour and compilation of

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stories) The Funeral of Big Mama (El funeral de la Abuela) Begins redacting Cien aos de Soledad (One Hundred years in Solitude) Published in Buenos Aires the novel Cien aos de Soledad (One hundred years in Solitude). Published in the shape of a book Relato de un nufrago (The story of a Shipwrecked Sailor). Published the compilation of stories La increble y triste historia de la Cndida Erndira y de su abuela desalmada (Innocent Erendira and Other Stories).. Published El Otoo delPatriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch), novel which took him 8 years to write and he read for 10 years about history of Latin America and its dictators. Publihed Crnica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), novel inspired in a real event that happened in his young years. The Swedish Academy granted him the Nobel of Literatura. Appear the volumes Textos costeos y Entre cachacos Coastal Texts and Between Cops), journalistic compilations. Published El amor en los tiempos del clera Love in the Time of Cholera), with and initial edition of 750.000 ejemplares. Published La aventura de Miguel Littn clandestino en Chile (Miguel Littin adventure underground in Chile). Published the historic novel El general en su laberinto(The General in his Labirynth), about 6

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the the figure of the liberator Simn Bolvar. Published Doce cuentos peregrinos(Twelve Pilgrim Stories), compilation of short stories. Published el theatrical monologue Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado(Love rant with a man sitting. Published Noticia de un secuestro (News of a Kidnapping. Published Vivir para contarla (Live to Tell), first part of his memories. Published the short novel Memorias de mis putas tristes (Memories of My Melancholy Whores).

Source Citation "Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez." Contemporary Popular Writers. Ed. Dave Mote. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 June 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/ps/i.do?&id=GALE %7CK1632000093&v=2.1&u=char69915&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Besner, Neil. "Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1928- )." Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. Vol. 1. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 367. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 June 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/ps/i.do?&id=GALE %7CA16849073&v=2.1&u=char69915&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Spanish http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/quienessomos.htm