- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGabriel José García Márquez
- Nickname
- Gabo
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Marcos Eduardo Acosta Aldrete
- SpouseMercedes Barcha(March 27, 1958 - April 17, 2014) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- RelativesEsteban Garcia Garzon(Niece or Nephew)
- The video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" is based on his short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".
- Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).
- Worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Geneva, Poland, Hungary, Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, India and New York City.
- His most successful novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985), which was made into the movie Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).
- His book Love in the Time of Cholera is featured as a major prop in Serendipity (2001).
- Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on twenty-four hours a day.
- Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
- The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
- A man know when he is growing old because he looks like his father.
- It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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