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was born in the March 6, 1927.
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Shortly after the birth of Gabriel, his father became a pharmacist and, in January 1929, with Luisa moved to Barranquilla , leaving Gabriel Aracataca the care of his maternal grandparents.
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death of his grandfather in 1936
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García Márquez attended the early grades of school in the Jesuit school of San Jose since 1940, where he published his first poems in the school magazine Youth.
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After graduation in 1947, García Márquez remained in Bogotá to study law at the National University of Colombia , where he had special dedication to reading.
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In 1950, becoming a lawyer withdrew to focus on journalism and moved back to Ottawa to work as a columnist and reporter for the newspaper El Heraldo.
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Gabriel was a writer, novelist, screenwriter, editor and journalist colombiano.In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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In 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
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After 24 years of absence, in 2007 he returned to Aracataca for a tribute paid to him by the Colombian government to fulfill its 80 years of life and 40 from the first publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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García Márquez died on April 17, 2014.
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In April 2014 he was admitted to the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City, because of a relapse product of lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed in 1999. the Cancer had affected lung, lymph nodes and liver.
