Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

1. Studies

   • He attended secondary school in San José from 1940 and finished his baccalaureate at the Liceo de Zipaquirá School, on December 12, 1946.
   • In 1946, he began his law degree at the Universal Nacional de Bogotá. After the murder of the liberal politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and the subsequent disturbances that caused the closure of the university center, García Márquez He moved to the University of Cartagena to try to continue some studies to which he gave little interest. In 1950 García Márquez abandoned his studies

2. Origins

   • Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca Magdalena Colombiaia
   • Son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán

3. works

   • In 1967 he published one of his main works "Cien años de soledad"
   • Some of his main works are: "La Hojarasca" (1955), "El Colonel Has No One Who "Write Him" ​​(written in 1957, published in 1961), "The Autumn Of The Patriarch" (1975), "Chronicle Of A Death Announced "(1981), Love in the Time of Cholera" (1986)
   • In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
   • He worked as a journalist in different countries.

4. His marriage

   • In 1958 he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo, with whom he had two children: Ricardo and Gonzálo.

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