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                           Gabriel García Márquez

 

 

 

Writer Gabriel García Márquez was born in Arataca, Colombia, on March 6, 1927. Among his greatest achievements is the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

 

He published his most successful work, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in 1967 and it became one of the most important novels of 20th century literature. The story of the Buendía family has been translated into more than 24 languages. In 2007, the Royal Spanish Academy launched a popular commemorative edition of this novel, considering it one of the great Hispanic classics of all time.

 

In addition, he obtained great sales success and enormous repercussion with his works "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "Love in the Time of Cholera", "The Colonel Has No One to Write to Him", "The Funeral of the Mamá Grande", "The Shipwrecked Man's Tale", "Blue Dog's Eyes", etc.

 

Thus, García Márquez has been the greatest representative of the so-called "magical realism", characterized by the encounter of realistic elements with apparitions and fantastic circumstances.

 

He was one of the greatest representatives of the boom in Spanish-American literature.

 

His relationship with Fidel Castro has been a source of controversy. According to the British Gerald Martin, who published in 2008 the first authorized biography of the novelist, García Márquez feels an "enormous fascination for power". He points out that "he has always wanted to be a witness to power and it is fair to say that this fascination is not gratuitous, but pursues certain objectives" and mentions that many consider his proximity to Cuban leader Fidel Castro as excessive. Martin recalls that he has also been related to Felipe Gonzalez or Bill Clinton but "everyone looks only at his relationship with Castro".

 

Among his most recent works is the book of memoirs "Vivir para contarla", published by Gabriel García Márquez in 2002. In 2004 he published the novel "Memoria de mis putas tristes", a love story that follows the romance of a ninety-year-old man and his young concubine. In 2010 he published "Yo no vengo a decir un discurso", which brings together 22 texts written throughout his life to be read in public.

 

García Márquez has shown an interest in film and television, participating as a screenwriter, as a producer and allowing the adaptation of his work.