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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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6 March 1927 - 17 April 2014
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March 6, 1926 in the city of Arakataka (Colombia) was born Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As a child, he was interested in the traditions of different peoples and their peculiarities of language. At the age of 20, Gabriel Garcia began his studies at the law faculty of the National University of Bogotá, which he never graduated, deciding to devote himself to literature. In the same year, he first met his future wife Mercedes Barcha Pardo, whom they signed in 1958 and who bore him two sons. His first work
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March 6, 1926 in the city of Arakataka (Colombia) was born Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As a child, he was interested in the traditions of different peoples and their peculiarities of language.
At the age of 20, Gabriel Garcia began his studies at the law faculty of the National University of Bogotá, which he never graduated, deciding to devote himself to literature. In the same year, he first met his future wife Mercedes Barcha Pardo, whom they signed in 1958 and who bore him two sons. His first work Gabriel Garcia published in the magazine in 1947, it was called “Third refusal” (La tercera resignacion). And in 1955, his first book, La hojarasca, was published.
Many readers know the works of Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (Cien anos de soledad), "Autumn of the Patriarch" (El otono del patriarca), "Nobody writes to the Colonel" (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) .
In 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez received the Nobel Prize. And in 2007, a film based on Marquez's novel "Love in a Time of the Plague" (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) .
The last work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez was the novel "Remembering My Sad Whores" (Memoria de mis putas tristes), the ending of this novel was rewritten by the author, due to the the theft of manuscripts and the launch of the work a month before the official presentation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87. /