By: Eddie Edwards

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Born on March 6th, 1928 in Aracataca, which is a small town in Northern Colombia.

Was raised in his grandparent’s house, which was said to be filled with countless aunts and rumors of ghost.

His grandfather was a colonel and a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days.

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The Beginning of his Life

Aracataca, Colombia

Nicknamed Gabito which means "little Gabriel“, grew up as a quiet and shy boy with his grandparents.

His grandfather died when he was 8 years old and his mother was increasing with her blindness

He later went to Sucre, where his father worked as a pharmacist.

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Childhood

Sucre, Bolivia

In 1940, he was awarded a scholarship to a secondary school for gifted students ran by Jesuits.

He attended the Liceo Nacional school in Zipaquirá, about 30 miles away from Bogotá.

The journey took him a week to get from Zipaquirá to Bogotá.

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Childhood (cont.)

Zipaguira, Colombia

In 1946, the eighteen year old wished to enroll in the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá not just as a journalist, but also to be a law student.

While with his parents, he was introduced to a 13 year old girl named Mercedes Barcha Pardo, who was a Egyptian descendant.

Before he went off to finish school, he proposed to her, but she held it off until after.

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Into his Teens

Bogata, Colombia

Into his Teens (cont.) After not going to school and skipping

classes, he began to write fiction books, and then came his first story published in 1946 called “ The Third Resignation”.

Over the next few years, he had written over ten stories for the newspaper in Bogotá.

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Book Written by Gabriel

Garcia Marquez

Attended Jesuit college and began to read law.

Geneve was the first town he was sent to. In 1954, he was send to Rome for an

assignment on his newspaper for journalism.

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Into his Teens (cont.)

Jesuit College

García Márquez travelled through Geneva, Rome, Poland and Hungary, finally settling in Paris where he found that he was out of a job because the Pinilla government had shut down the presses of El Espectador.

Because of this occurance, he had written a book to be called and later become “In Evil Hour”

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In His Later Years

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was awarded the Nobel Prize award for literature in 1982 for his hard work and dedication in writing his books.

He had written a lot of famous books such as the Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love and Other Demons.

In 1999, he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.

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In His Later Years (cont.)

Love and Other Demons