COLOMBIAN

• AUTHOR
Born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April
17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
• Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of
the 20th century Mostly for his masterpiece Cien años
de soledad (1967)
• Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982
• He was the fourth Latin American to be so honoured,
having been preceded by Gabriela Mistral, Pablo
Neruda, Miguel Angel Asturias
• Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez the most
popular writters
The literary giant Gabriel García Márquez
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows his award to the audience, following the
presentation in the Concert Hall, Stockholm, Oct. 12, 1982. (AP Photo/Pool)
With Fidel Castro
This file picture from December 15, 1986, shows former Cuban President Fidel Castro (C), Nobel Literature Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) and movie director Fernando Birri
(R) during the inauguration of the International School of Cinema in San Antonio de los Banos, Havana province. (Photo by Adalberto Roque /AFP/Getty Images)
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

From Love in the Time of Cholera

 LIFE
Born in the sleepy provincial town of
Aracataca, Colombia, Gabriel García
Márquez and his parents spent the first
eight years of his life with his maternal
grandparents, Colonel Nicolás Márquez
and Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes de
Márquez.
After Nicolás’s death, they moved to
Barranquilla, where He received a
better-than-average education but
claimed as an adult that his most
important literary sources were the
stories about Aracataca and his
family, Although he studied law.
Portrait of Colombian author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. May 1972. (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images)
Visiting His Hometown Of Aracataca
Santa Marta, Colombia: Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, sitting in the carriage alongside his wife Mercedes Barcha, smiles upon
arriving at his hometown Aracataca by train 30 May, 2007 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Garcia Marquez didn't visit Aracataca in 20 years. (Photo by Alejandra Vega
/AFP/Getty Images)
'Gabo'
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez gestures during a celebration for Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes' 80th birthday in Mexico City, on November 17, 2008. The
octogenarian writer released a new book next October called "Yo no vengo a decir un discurso" (I am not here to deliver a speech), which collected together 22 texts that were
written with the purpose of being read in public. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
"He who awaits much can expect little"

From No One Writes To The Colonel

 WORKS AND
LEGACY
● 1975; The Autumn of the Patriarch.
● 1981; Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
● 1985; Love in the Time of Cholera;
filmed 2007.
● 1989; The General in His Labyrinth.
● 1994; Of Love and Other Demons.

The literary giant Gabriel García Márquez

'Gabo' And Evo Morales
HAVANA, CUBA: Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) speaks with Bolivian President Evo Morales at Revolution Square in Havana, during a military parade celebrating
President Fidel Castro's 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. (Photo by Baltazar Mesa /AFP/Getty Images)
"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."

From The General In His Labyrinth

I have learned so much from you men... I have learned that
everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without
realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope.

gracias, Gabriel…