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ELKIN PATARROYO
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; He was born
March 6, 1927 is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and
journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered
one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the
1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in
Literature, and is the earliest remaining living recipient.1 He pursued a
self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in
journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of
Colombian and foreign politics.
In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two
sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
He started as a journalist, and has written many
acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his
novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Autumn of the Patriarch
(1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant
critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for
popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical
elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his
works are set in a fictional village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired
by his birthplace Aracataca), and most of them express the theme of solitude.
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