Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a banana-growing town on the Colombian Caribbean coast, and grew up with his grandparents, whose tales of civil wars and superstitions provided the material for his work. He gave up law for journalism, trained in the Barranquilla group, worked as a correspondent in Europe, then settled in Mexico. Nobel laureate in 1982, he was close to Fidel Castro and founded a school of journalism in Cartagena. He died in Mexico City in 2014.

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• NovelChronicle of a Death ForetoldCrónica de una muerte anunciadaGabriel García Márquez · 1981Literature