Gabriel José Garcia Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez, b. March 6, 1928. Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. He has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe. While García Márquez is often considered the most famous of writers of magical realism, and while much of his writing has elements which are strongly associated with magical realism, García Márquez's writing is simply too diverse to be bound within categories. García Márquez got his start as a reporter for the Colombian daily El Espectador , and later worked as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York City. His first major work was The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Relato de un náufrago) , which he wrote as a newspaper series in 1955. The book told the inglorious true story of a shipwreck that had been glorified by the government. This resulted in the beginning of his foreign correspondence, as it was unsafe for him to remain in Colombia. It was later published in 1970 and taken by many to have been a novel. Several of his works have been classified as both fiction and non-fiction, notably Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Chrónica de una murete anuncida) (1981), which tells the tale of revenge killing in his hometown of Aracataca, and Love in the | |
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