Gabriel García Márquez Biography

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio Garcia, a telegraph operator, and Luisa Santiaga Marquez Iguaran. He attended the Universidad National de Colombia and the Universidad de Cartagena, where he studied law; but he was a poor student, often skipping classes to read books in the park. Garcia Marquez began his career as a journalist in 1947 as a reporter for Cartagena's Universal, later working for El Heraldo in Baranquilla and El Espectador in Bogota, Colombia's capital, until embarking on a career as a freelance journalist in Paris, London, and Caracas, Venezuela, in the late fifties.

Garcia Marquez's development as a storyteller was influenced greatly by his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, Nicolas Ricardo Marquez, was an outspoken man, a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days who believed in honor and justice, and who once described his wartime service as...
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