Marquez

Author: Yu Fengchuan
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927–) was a Colombian writer and journalist. He was born in the town of Aracataca in Magdalena Province. His father was a telegraph operator and homeopath. He grew up with his grandparents, as his mother died when he was young. His grandfather was a former colonel with a kind but stubborn personality and progressive ideas, while his grandmother was knowledgeable and skilled in telling myths and ghost stories, which had a significant impact on the author's later literary career. At the age of 13, he moved to the capital, Bogotá, and attended a church school. At 18, he enrolled in the National University of Colombia to study law and joined the Liberal Party. In 1948, Colombia experienced a civil war, and he dropped out of school midway. Soon after, he entered the newspaper industry as a journalist for El Observador while also engaging in literary. From 1954, he served as the newspaper's European correspondent. From 1961, he worked as a journalist for the Cuban Latin American Agency. He lived in Mexico from 1961 to 1967, working in literature, journalism, and film. In 1971, he received an honorary doctorate in literature from Columbia University in the United States, and in 1972, he won the highest Latin American literary award, the Gaitán Prize. In 1982, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was named an honorary member of the Colombian Language Academy. The main feature of García Márquez's works is the skillful blending of fantasy and reality, used to reflect social reality, examine life and the world. His important works include the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Fall of the House of Machado (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985); the novellas Leaf Storm (1955), The Time of the Birds (1961), No One Writes to the Colonel (1961), and A Premeditated Murder (1981); the short story collections The Eyes of Blue Sapphire (1955) and The Funerals of Grandmother Grande (1962); the screenplay Kidnapped (1984); the literary conversations Cien A?os de Soledad (1932); and the reportage collections The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970) and The Adventures of Miguel Littín (1986), among others.