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Gabriel Garcìa Marquez: "We Prefer A Grave in Colombia To A Cell in United States."
Gabriel Garcìa Marquez: "We Prefer A Grave in Colombia To A Cell in United States."
Gabriel Garcìa Marquez: "We Prefer A Grave in Colombia To A Cell in United States."
We prefer a grave in
Colombia to a cell in United
States.
Biography
Gabriel
Jos de la
Concordia Garca
Mrquez, named
Gabo, is a
Colombian writer
and journalist.
In 1982 he won the
Nobel Prize in
Literature.
Biography
Hes
considered the
leading exponent of
the so called Magic
realism in fiction.
He inspired a
renewed interest
Latin-American
literature.
Marquez and US
Government
In 1961 he moved to
New York, as
correspondent for Prensa
Latina. Feeling under
surveillance by the CIA
and threated by Cuban
Anticastrist exiles, he
decided to transfer to
Mexico, after he lost
permanent residency in
the USA as a journalist,
due to his political views.