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Short Info

Date Of Birth	March 6, 1927
Died	April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico, April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Spouse	Mercedes Barcha, Mercedes Barcha
Fact	Pictured on a 55c Spanish commemorative postage stamp, issued 22 April 2015.

Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia. His father, Gabriel Eligio García, was a telegraph operator and a veteran of the Thousand Days War (1899-1902); his mother, Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, was a schoolteacher. García Márquez was the first of twelve children. He was raised in Aracataca, but spent most of his childhood in nearby Sucre, where his maternal grandparents lived.

García Márquez began his education at a local primary school, but his family’s financial situation forced him to transfer to a boarding school in Barranquilla when he was nine years old. He continued his studies at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, where he majored in law. He did not complete his degree, however, because he became disillusioned with the corrupt Colombian legal system.

García Márquez began his career as a journalist in 1948. He worked for a number of different newspapers and magazines in Colombia and Venezuela. In 1955, he moved to Mexico City, where he worked as a screenwriter and journalist. He also began writing fiction during this period. His first novel, “La hojarasca” (1955), was not successful.

García Márquez’s breakthrough came with the publication of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967). The novel, which tells the story of the fictional town of Macondo and its residents, is considered one of the most important works of Latin American literature. It won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

García Márquez continued to write fiction throughout his career. His other novels include “El amor en los tiempos del cólera” (1985) and “Memoria de mis putas tristes” (2004). He also wrote a number of non-fiction works, including “Noticia de un secuestro” (1996), a book about the kidnapping of his cousin, Luis Carlos Galán.

García Márquez died on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87.

General Info

Full Name	Gabriel García Márquez
Date Of Birth	March 6, 1927
Died	April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico, April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Profession	Screenwriter, Opinion Piece Writer, Novelist, Actor, Actor, Novelist, Screenwriter, Opinion Piece Writer
Education	University of Cartagena, National University of Colombia, University of Cartagena, National University of Colombia

Family

Spouse	Mercedes Barcha, Mercedes Barcha
Children	Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García Barcha, Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García Barcha
Parents	Gabriel Eligio García, Luisa Santiaga Márquez, Luisa Santiaga Márquez, Gabriel Eligio García
Siblings	Jaime Garcia Marquez, Jaime Garcia Marquez

Accomplishments

Awards	Nobel Prize in Literature, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Ariel Award for Best Original Story, Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema, N...
Nominations	Man Booker International Prize, Best Screenplay Award, Man Booker International Prize, Best Screenplay Award
Movies	Eréndira, There Are No Thieves in This Village, The Blue Lobster, Miracle in Rome, The Widow of Montiel, Mary My Dearest, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier, Farewell to the Ark, Oedipus Mayor, Patsy, My Love, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Invisible Children, The year of the plague, 4 contra ...
TV Shows	QAP, QAP

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0305781

Quotes

#	Quote
1	He who awaits much can expect little.
2	I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
3	Children's lies are signs of great talent.
4	The world must be fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
5	I'm a journalist. I've always been a journalist. My books couldn't have been written if I weren't a journalist because all the material was taken from reality.
6	It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
7	A man know when he is growing old because he looks like his father.
8	The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
9	Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
10	Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on twenty-four hours a day.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Pictured on a 200p Colombian commemorative postage stamp issued 14 July 2015.
2	Pictured on a 55c Spanish commemorative postage stamp, issued 22 April 2015.
3	Good friends with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
4	After learning that he suffered from lymphatic cancer in 1999, he wrote his autobiography "Vivir para contarla" ("Living to Tell the Tale", 2002).
5	His most successful novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985), which was made into the movie Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).
6	Worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Geneva, Poland, Hungary, Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, India and New York City.
7	Born to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, he was raised by his grandparents Nicolas Ricardo Márquez, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, and Tranquilinia Iguarán Cotes.
8	Father of Gonzalo García Barcha.
9	His book Love in the Time of Cholera is featured as a major prop in Serendipity (2001).
10	Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982
11	The video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" is based on his short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".
12	Father of Rodrigo García.
13	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).

Pictures

Movies

Writer

Title	Year	Status
Tevavore	2016	Short short story
Memoria de mis putas tristes	2011	based on the novel by
Nativ Damech Basheleg	2011	Short story
Kaszel umarlaka	2009	Short inspired by the short story "Muerte constante más allá del amor" - as G. G. Marquez
Del amor y otros demonios	2009	novel
Love in the Time of Cholera	2007	novel "El amor en los tiempos del cólera"
ZA 05. Lo viejo y lo nuevo	2006	Documentary
O Veneno da Madrugada	2005	novel "La Mala Hora"/"In Evil Hour"
Los niños invisibles	2001
Duelo	2001	Short book
The Death of Abraham Lincoln: In Three Parts	2000	Short story by
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba	1999	novel
Ma armastan sind	1997	Short novel
Oedipo alcalde	1996
Saturday Night Thief	1996	TV Short
Eyes of a Blue Dog	1994	story
Crónicas de una generación trágica	1993	TV Mini-Series idea - 6 episodes
Mkholod sikvdili modis autsileblad	1992	novel
Me alquilo para soñar	1992	TV Mini-Series 6 episodes
La mujer que llegaba a las seis	1992	Short story
Nekros adelfos	1992	Short short story
Xuese Qingchen	1992	uncredited
Contigo en la distancia	1991	Short
La María	1991	TV Series adaptation - 1991
Con el amor no se juega	1991
The Two Way Mirror	1990	TV Short
Un domingo feliz	1989	TV Movie
El verano de la señora Forbes	1989	TV Movie story
I'm the One You're Looking For	1989	TV Movie story
Milagro en Roma	1989	writer
Cartas del parque	1989	screenplay / story
Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes	1988	screenplay collaboration
Fábula de la Bella Palomera	1988	writer
Cronaca di una morte annunciata	1987	novel
Tiempo de morir	1985
Farewell to the Ark	1984	novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Tiempo de morir	1984	TV Series story
Eréndira	1983	novel / screenplay
Hyakunen no kodoku	1981	Video novel
Enroque	1981	Short story
El mar del tiempo perdido	1980	short story
El año de la peste	1979	screenplay
María de mi corazón	1979	screenplay / story
La viuda de Montiel	1979	novel
Presagio	1974
Patsy, mi amor	1969	story
4 contra el crimen	1968	screenplay
Juego peligroso	1967	segment "HO"
Time to Die	1966
Amor amor amor	1965	adaptation - segment "Lola de mi vida"
En este pueblo no hay ladrones	1965	story
Lola de mi vida	1965	adaptation / screenplay
The Golden Cockerel	1964	screenplay
La langosta azul	1954	Short

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
María de mi corazón	1979	uncredited
En este pueblo no hay ladrones	1965		Boletero cine

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Lecciones para un Beso	2011	script doctor
Northern Exposure	1994	TV Series "100 Years of Solitude" by - 1 episode

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
La langosta azul	1954	Short

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Edición Especial Coleccionista	2014	TV Series in memory of - 1 episode
Águilas no cazan moscas	1994	thanks
Mi hermano del alma	1994	thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Neorealism: We Were Not Just Bicycles Thieves	2013	Documentary	Himself - Interviewed
On Story	2012	TV Series	Himself
La palabra empeñada	2010	Documentary	Himself
José e Pilar	2010	Documentary	Himself
Muchos años después... Gabo en México	2007	Documentary	Himself
IV Congreso internacional de la lengua española	2007	TV Movie	Himself
10 líneas de 'El Quijote'	2005	TV Series	Himself
Directives Are Directives	2001	Short documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Caiga quien caiga	1997-1999	TV Series	Himself
Un siècle d'écrivains	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
Enredando sombras	1998	Documentary	Himself
La vida según...	1995	TV Series	Himself
My Macondo	1990		Himself
Acta General de Chile	1986	Documentary	Himself
Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas	1986	Documentary	Himself
Camilo, el cura guerrillero	1974	Documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Gabo, la creación de Gabriel García Márquez	2015	Documentary	Himself
The 87th Annual Academy Awards	2015	TV Special	Himself - Writer (In Memoriam)
Días de cine	2014	TV Series	Himself
La tele de tu vida	2007	TV Series	Himself
La mandrágora	2006	TV Series	Himself
Alivio de luto	2005	Video short	Himself
Unsere Besten	2004	TV Series	Himself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1982	Nobel Prize in Literature	Nobel Prize		"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a ... More
1980	Silver Ariel	Ariel Awards, Mexico	Best Screenplay (Mejor Guión Cinematográfico)	El año de la peste (1979)
1980	Silver Goddess	Mexican Cinema Journalists	Best Screenplay, Adapted (Mejor Adaptación)	El año de la peste (1979)