March 7

Gabo’s early life

Early life:

  • Born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia to Luisa Santiaga Márquez and Gabriel Elijio García.
  • He was raised by his maternal grandparents until he was eight.
  • He was sent to a boarding school where he developed into a studious student. He loved to draw comics though he was not much into athletics.
  • He earned a scholarship to study at the Jesuit Liceo Nacional secondary school when he was 14, and graduated in 1946.
  • The oldest child in a big family and was particularly close to his grandfather who was retired from the army and eventually inspired the novel “No One Writes to the Colonel.”
  • He studied law at the National University in Bogota
  • During the late 1940s the University he was studying at shut down because of violent behaviour and political protests in the country and Marquez moved to the University of Cartagena
  • He absolutely hated legal studies and he never finished his degree

Below: Mid 1940s and 1929

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Life:

  • First novel: “Leaf Storm.”
  • He published essays about his travels in communist eastern Europe.
  • worked for El Espectador (controversial as it was founded by Fidel Castro)
  • He’s lived in France, Columbia, Cuba, Spain, Mexico
  • Two years before his death Garcia Marquez’s editor says he is working on a new novel, titled “We’ll See Each Other in August.” A younger brother, Jaime, says that the author is suffering from dementia and can no longer write.
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