Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Born: 6 March 1927, Aracataca, Colombia

Died: 17 April 2014, Mexico City, Mexico

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. His fiction work introduced readers to magical realism, which combines more conventional storytelling with vivid fantasy. His novels – “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” have drawn worldwide audiences, and he won a Nobel Prize in 1982.

Márquez was born on March 6, 1927.He grew up with his maternal grant parent – his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. Marquez’s first novel “Leaf Storm” was published in 1955. His best-known novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, published in 1967. Other major works include “Love in the Time of Cholera” (1985) and “The General in His Labyrinth” (1989). In 1999, Garcia Marquez was diagnosed with cancer and was died on April 17, 2014, at age 87 at his Mexico City home. With lyricism and marked wisdom, Marquez has been recognized as one of the most remarkable storytellers of the 20th century.

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera