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Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia
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He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist
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he was sent to Rome* on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journali
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"la hojarasca"
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married in Barranquilla with Mercedes Barcha, union which would be born two children: Rodrigo
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participates in the creation of one of the greatest literary phenomena
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mexico died in his 87 years due to lymphatic cancer