Gabriel García Marquez was born on 6th March, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia.

Son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez

He started his formal Education and was sent to a boarding School in Barranquilla. There he
acquired a reputation as a shy boy who wrote humorous poems and drew humorous comics.
Serious and little given to athletic activities. His a nickname was the old man.
Then, the government gave him a scholarship, Gabriel was sent to study in Bogotá at the
Colegio Liceo Nacional de Zipaquirá, a city located one hour from the capital, where he
completed his secondary studies.
He studied law at the National University of Colombia, but abandoned it to devote to
Journalism and Literature
He’s married to Mercedes Barcha Pardo and has two children. Gabriel García Márquez
married in March, 1958.
In 1959 they had their first child named Rodrigo and three years later was born Gonzalo.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez lived in Mexico with his family since the 60s
Gabriel García Márquez became famous after writing “Cien años de Soledad” and selling
eight thousand books in a week.
In 1969 the novel won the “Chianciano Aprecian” in Italy and was called the “Best Foreign
Book”
He was also famous for his genius as a writer and for his political stance. His friendship to
the Cuban president Fidel Castro was well known in the literary and political world.
He was awarded in 1972 prize international of Literature Neustadt and in 1982 Nobel prize
in Literature.

“Cien años de soledad”

The first edition of the novel was published in Buenos Aires in May 1967 by the South
American publishing house.

• The book is composed of 20 untitled chapters, in which a story of the events of the town
and the family Buendía, mixing fantasy with reality.

It is considered one of the most representative novels of the literary movement.

• During the novel, all his characters suffer from loneliness.

• The town has no modernity and lives isolated