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Gabriel García Márquez Biography -He is the son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Iguarán Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, in the department of Magdalena, Colombia.He attended high school in San Jose in 1940 and finished his secondary education at the Liceo College of Zipaquirá, on December 12, 1946. Was enrolled at the Faculty of Law, National University ofCartagena on February 25, 1947, although without showing excessive interest in studies. His friendship with the doctor and writer Manuel Zapata Olivella allowed him access to the media. Immediatelyafter the "Bogotazo" (the killing of liberal leader Jorge Gaitan in Bogota, subsequent events and the brutal repression of them), began their collaboration in the liberal daily El Universal.
GarcíaMárquez married in Barranquilla in 1958 with Mercedes Barcha, the daughter of an apothecary. In 1959 they had their first son, Rodrigo, who became director; and three years later gave birth to their secondson, Gonzalo, currently a graphic designer in Mexico City.
At twenty he published his first novel, "Leaf Storm", which already showed the most characteristic, full of boundless imagination featuresof his fiction.
But the global reputation of García Márquez begins when “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in June 1967 published, a week sold 8000 copies. Thereafter, success was assured, and the novelsold a new issue each week, going to sell half a million copies in three years. It was translated into more than twenty languages, and won four international awards. Success had come at last and thewriter was 40 when the world learned his name. By correspondence of admirers, awards, interviews, appearances; was obvious that his life had changed. In 1969 the novel won the Chianchiano appreciatesin Italy and was named the "Best Foreign Book" in France. In 1970, was published in English and was chosen as one of the twelve best books of the year in the United States.
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