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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His parents left him with his grandparents to be reared. He was educated at the National University of Bogota and the University of Cartagena where he studied law and journalism. He worked as a newspaper editor in Colombia and later as a European correspond in Rome and Paris for EL ESPECTADOR. During the 1960s and 70s he lived in Mexico and Spain in voluntary exile from his native country.
Marquez is both a novelist and short story writer. His first collection of short stories, LA HOJARASCA (LEAF STORM AND OTHER STORIES) was published when he was 27. He is most famous for the novel, CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD (ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE), which was published in 1967.
Marquez currently lives in Mexico City.
CHRONOLOGY
1928 He was born in Aracataca, Colombia.
1946 He worked as a newspaper editor in Cartagena.
1948 He began working as a newspaper editor in Barranquilla.
1952 He worked as a newspaper editor in Bogota.
1955 LA HOJARASCA (LEAF STORM AND OTHER STORIES); He worked as a European correspond in Rome and Paris for EL ESPECTADOR.
1957 EL COLONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA (NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL AND OTHER STORIES)
1959 He began working for the Cuban news agency La Prensa in Colombia.
1961 LA MALA HORA (IN EVIL HOUR)
1962 LOS FUNERALES MDE LA MAMA GRANDE (BIG MAMA'S FUNERAL)
1967 CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD (ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE)
1968 LA NOVELA EN AMERICA LATINA
1970 RELATO DE UN NAUGRAGO (THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR)
1972 LA INCREIBLE Y TRISTE HISTORIA DE LA CANDIDA ERENDIRA Y DE SU ABUELA (INNOCENT ERENDIRA AND OTHER STORIES)
1973 CUANDO ERA FELIZ E INDOCUMENTADO
1975 EL OTONO DEL PATRIARCA (THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH)
1978 DE VIAJE POR LOS PAISES SOCIALISTAS; CRONICAS Y REPORTAJES; PERIODISMO MILITANTE
1979 LA BATALLA DE NICARAQUA; GARCIA MARQUEZ HABLA DE GARCA MARQUEZ; He founded Fundacion Habeas.
1981 CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA (CHRONICAL OF A DEATH FORETOLD)
1982 EL OLOR E LA GUAYABA (THE FRAGRANCE OF GUAVA); EL SECUESTRO; VIVA SANDINO; He moved to Colombia.; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1983 LA SOLEDAD SE AMERICA LATINA; ERENDIRA; MARIA DE MI CORAZON (MARY MY DEAREST)
1984 PERSECUTION Y MUERTE DE MINORIAS
1985 EL AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS DEL COLERA (LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA)
1986 EL CATACLISMO DE DAMOCLES (THE DOOM OF DAMOCLES); LA AVENTURA DE MIGUEL LITTIN. CLADESTINO EN CHILI (CLANDESTINE IN CHILE: THE ADVENTURES OF MIGUEL LITTEN)
1987 TEXTOS COSTENOS
1989 EL GENERAL EN SU LABERINTO (THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH)
1992 DOCE CENTOS PERENGRINOS (STRANGE PILGRIMS)
1994 DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS (OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS)
1996 NOTICIA DE UN SECUESTRO
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