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Gabriel García Márquez: Life and Legacy

The document summarizes Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life and career. It describes how he was inspired by his grandparents to read and developed a fascination for books at a young age. It outlines some of his major works including One Hundred Years of Solitude, which brought him international recognition and a Nobel Prize for Literature. The summary concludes by noting he died in 2014 after a long career as one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.

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Gabriel García Márquez: Life and Legacy

The document summarizes Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life and career. It describes how he was inspired by his grandparents to read and developed a fascination for books at a young age. It outlines some of his major works including One Hundred Years of Solitude, which brought him international recognition and a Nobel Prize for Literature. The summary concludes by noting he died in 2014 after a long career as one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.

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EVIDENCIA GA1-240202501-AA2-EV03. CRÓNICA.

INSTRUCTOR: JONATHAN CORPUS

TECNICO EN ATENCION INTEGRAL AL CLIENTE

SENA 2023
CHRONICLE
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

He was a Colombian writer and journalist. recognized mainly for his novels and
short stories, he also wrote fiction narratives, speeches, reports, filmreviews and
memoirs. He was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, department of
Magdalena - Colombia, nicknamed "Gabo" by his fans and followers.
Gabriel García Márquez had a fascination for reading and creativity that developed
at a young age thanks to His maternal grandparents because his parents moved to
Barranquilla leaving him in the care of Colonel Márquez, who was an excellent
storyteller and taught "Gabo" to consult encyclopedias and dictionaries.
His maternal grandmother, Tranquilina, was also fond of reading fiction and
taught him many different stories that later became part of his inspiration for the
multitude of stories of the author that was reflected in his first book One Hundred
Years of Solitude, which broke international barriers.
At school the other children teased him for his poor ability for sports and his
fascination for books and at that time he was nicknamed the old man, besides that
at the age of thirteen he fell in love and managed to conquer Mercedes Barracha
with whom he married when he finished his studies in 1958.
In 1959 Gabo had his first son Rodrigo, and two years later he moved to New York
to work as a correspondent for a Latin news newspaper. By this time Marquez had
written his first three novels, the leaves in 1955, the colonel does not have who you
scribe in 1961, and the bad hour in 1962.
Five years later Gabo wrote his fourth novel changing his life, since by then he was
already a well traveled man and decided to live with his wife and children
permanently in Mexico City where he wrote and published One Hundred Years of
Solitude, nominating it for four international awards and receiving the Nobel Prize
for Literature.
From then on Gabo wrote several classics in which Memorias of my whores sad
(2004) was his last novel since in 1999 in Mexico City they detect a cancer that
puts his health at risk and stops writing, Finally in 2014 he dies leaving his subjects
who pay tribute to one of the greatest minds of literature of the twentieth century

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