Gabriel José García Márquez (innate March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political militant. Natural in the town of Aracataca in the department of Magdalena, he has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe and he currently lives 100% of his period within Mexico City.

García Márquez is typically considered a best known writer of magic realism, and great deal of his writing has elements strongly associated sustaining a style, however his writing is as well diverse to become easy categorized as a whole.

García Márquez had his run as a newsperson for the Bogotá daily El Espectador, and afterwards worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York City.

His number one major act was The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago), which he wrote as a newspaper series within 1955. the book told a disgraceful confessedly story of a shipwreck that got been glorified per government. This resulted around the beginning of his foreign correspondence, when it was insecure for him to remain in Colombia. It was late published within 1970 and taken by many to develop been the novel.

Many of his works develop been classified when each fiction and non-fiction, notably Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) (1981), which tells the tale of retaliation killing recorded in the newspapers, & Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) (1985), which tells the story of his parents' courting. Additionally, numerous of his works, including people deuce, require place in the "García Márquez universe", by using characters, cases, & locations appearing from either book to book.

His best known novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) (1967; English translation by Gregory Rabassa 1970), has sold more than ten million copies. It depicts a life of an isolated South Our contries village in which unknown occurrences come portrayed when platitude; it surely has elements of the as if by wizard real, however these are tremendously to a higher degree that, existence as well a philosophic reflection on the nature & severity of instance & isolation, and is too lacking the folkloric content which occurs as requirement of magic realism. Non all about unknown & unexplained is folkloric; a bit of of these are only life. It should become noted that a novel should non merely exist as recognized for its innovative apply of magical realism but also for its beautiful apply of the Spanish language. Typically unnoted in the discussion of the book is the mere fact that these are truly an heroic piece of writing spanning decades in the life of the complex & big personal.

García Márquez won a Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, with his short stories & novels cited when a basis for the award.[http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1982/]

Within 2000, his death was incorrectly reported by Peruvian daily newspaper La Republica.

Inside 2002, he published the memoir Vivir para contarla, the number one volume of a projected 3-volume autobiography. the book was a brobdingnagian best seller in the Spanish-speaking globe. Edith Grossman's English translation, Living to Tell a Tale, was promulgated around November 2003 & has proven to become a second best seller. In September 10, 2004, the Bogotá every day El Tiempo announced a freshly novel, Memoria delaware mis putas tristes, a romance that was published the as a consequence October with a number 1 press run of of these million copies.

García Márquez is besides noted for his friendly relationship by using & enthusiasm for Fidel Castro and has previously uttered sympathy for a few Latin American revolutionary groups, especially during a Sixties & Seventies. He has likewise been critical of a situation around Colombia & he has non publicly supported guerrilla groups like the FARC and ELN that operate within his have united states.

He is the father of television & director Rodrigo Garcia.

Bibliography
1947 – Eyes of a Blue Dog(Ojos de perro azul) 1955 – Leaf Storm (La hojarasca) 1961 – No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien lupus erythematosus escriba) 1962 – ''Big Mama's Funeral (Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) 1962 – In Evil Hour (La mala hora) 1967 – One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) 1970 – The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) 1975 – The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoño del patriarca) 1978 – The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother (La increíble y triste historia delaware la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada) 1981 – Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) 1985 – Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) 1989 – The General in his Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto) 1992 – Strange Pilgrims (Doce cuentos peregrinos) 1994 – Of Love and Other Demons (Del amor y otros demonios) 1996 – News of a Kidnapping (Noticia de un secuestro) 2002 – Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla) 2004 – Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes)''