1. GabrielGarcía Márquez

2. Synopsis
 Born on 1928, writer Gabriel García Márquez grew up listening to
family tales. He grew up with his maternal grandparent who was a
pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the
century.

3. Synopsis
 After college, he became a journalist. His work introduced readers
to magical realism, which combines facts and fantasy.

4. Synopsis
 His novels “Cien años de soledad (One HundredYears of Solitude)”
and ”El amor en los tiempos del cólera ”(Love in theTime of
Cholera) have drawn worldwide audiences. He won a Nobel Prize
in 1982.

5. Early Life
 Writer and journalistGabriel García Márquez was born on March 6,
1928, in Aracataca,Colombia. Because his parents were still poor
and struggling, his grandparents accepted the task of raising him,
a common practice at the time.

6. Early Life
 "I feel that all my writing has been about the experiences of the
time I spent with my grandparents.“
 Gabriel García Márquez

7. Early Life
 Considered one of the leading Latino writers, Márquez grew up
listening to numerous family tales, such as his grandfather's war
stories and his parents' dating adventures. He published his first
story while in college and then became a journalist
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8. Magical
Realism
 García Márquez’s literary reputation is inseparable from the
term magical realism, a phrase that literary critics coined to
describe the distinctive blend of fantasy and realism in his (and
many other LatinAmerican authors’) work.

9. Magical
Realism
 "Magical realism expands the categorizes of the real so as to
encompass myth, magic and other extraordinary phenomena in
Nature or experience which European realism excluded"
 Gabriel García Márquez

10. Works
 García Márquez drew international acclaim for the novel Cien años
de soledad (1967), which was later translated as One HundredYears
of Solitude.

11. Works
 With this book, he is credited with helping to introduce the world
to magical realism, a literary genre that combines facts and
fantasy.

12. Works
 Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985),
also drew a worldwide audience.The work, partially based on his
parents' courtship, is also known by its English title, Love in the
Time of Cholera.

13. LaterYears
 In recent years, Gabriel García Márquez has explored his own life in
his work. His memoir Vivir para contarla (2002), published the next
year as Living toTell theTale, received warm reviews and accolades
from critics and fans.

14. LaterYears
 In recent years, Gabriel García Márquez has explored his own life in
his work.Throughout his career, García Márquez has won
numerous awards and honors for his work, including the 1982
Nobel Prize in Literature.

15. LaterYears
 In 1999, García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
Chemotherapy provided by a hospital in Los Angeles proved to be
successful, and the illness went into remission.This event
prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs.

16. LaterYears
 ”I reduced relations with my friends to a minimum, disconnected
the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of current and
future plans and locked myself in to write every day without
interruption.”
 Gabriel García Márquez

17. LaterYears
 In 2009, responding to claims by both his literary agent and his
biographer that his writing career was over, he told Colombian
newspaper ElTiempo: "Not only is it not true, but the only thing I
do is write".

18. LaterYears
 InApril 2014, García Márquez was hospitalized in Mexico.

19. LaterYears
 García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17April
2014 in MexicoCity.

20. LaterYears
Gabriel García Márquez
(1927-2014)