Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia. He was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez met Mercedes Barcha while she was at school and they decided to wait for her to finish before getting married. When he was sent to Europe as a foreign correspondent, Mercedes waited for him to return to Barranquilla. Finally they married in 1958. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Lterature on 8 December 1982 “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflicts”. García Márquez died of pneumonia, at the age of 87, on 17 April 2014, in Mexico City. (Based on Wikipedia)
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) |
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| DOCE CUENTOS PELEGRINOS |
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| One Hundred Years of Soliitude (1967) |
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| The General in His Labyrinth (1989) |
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| MEMORIA DE MIS PUTAS TRISTES |
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| Of Love and Other Demons (1994) |
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| In Evil Hour (1962) |
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| The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) |
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| No One Writes to the Colonel (1961) |
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| Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) |
