GABRIEL GARCIA

COLOMBIAN WRITER
THAT I ADMIRE VERY
MUCH
MARQUEZ
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• He was born on 6 march in 1927 in

Aracata, Colombia.

• He died on 17 april in 2014 in Mexico

(he was 87).
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• He got married with Marcedes Barcha in 1958 in

Barranquilla, Colombia (he loved her since young).

• One year later, they had a boy named Rodrigo. After

that, they lived in Mexico.

• Three years later, they had a second son named Gonzalo

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• He started to study “advocacy” in 1947, but never finished it.

• He never studied literature…. BUT, HE WAS A PASSINATE

CURIOSITIES WRITER AND JOURNALIST

• He loved the literature for his grandmother

• He was a writer of magical realism (it is a literary movement)

• He wrote several novels, stories, reports, etc…. For example:

1961 1967 1981

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MARQUEZ
AMAZING:
• He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 (first
colombian)

• He received the tittle “Doctor honoris causa” by

Columbia University in New York in 1971.

• A Colombian bill has his image (since 2016)

¡THANK YOU!