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Biography and Links for Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)
Gabriel García Márquez was born on Mar 6, 1928 in Colombia. He began his literary career reporting for the El Espectador, a Columbian newspaper, and earned early fame writing articles exposing the truth about a naval accident in Columbia. Although Márquez' first efforts at fiction were looked upon negatively, he continued writing until eventual success. His short story The Third Resignation recieved impessive reviews, and critics were even excited enough to proclaim a rebirth in Latin-American literature known as "The Boom". However, it was not until 1967 that he produced his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. After eighteen months of writing in seclusion, he produced a novel that told a story spanning several generations of a Colombian family.
Solitude was applauded enough to set the standard for the genre called Magic Realism, a unique style common to Latin-American writers of Márquez' time. Chronicle of a Death Foretold was one of Márquez' later works, written in 1981. Although the name of the town in Chronicle is never stated, it probably also set in Macondo, the fictional Columbian town in One Hundred Years of Solitude. A year after writing Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Márquez went on to win the nobel prize for literature, and continued writing. His next major work was Love in the Time of Cholera, written in 1983. See the Related Works Page of this site for a complete listing of Gabriel García Marquez' work.
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