Gabriel García Márquez(1927-2014)
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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.
