Gabriel García Márquez Biography | Author of Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera Author Biography

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, on 6 March 1928 to Gabriel Eligio Garcia and Luisa Santiaga Marquez de Garcia. In 1940 the young Garcia Marquez went on a scholarship to the Liceo Nacional de Zipaquira, a high school near Bogota. Several years later he enrolled in law school at the Universidad Nacional in the capital. Political unrest closed the university in 1948, and Garcia Marquez transferred to the Universidad de Cartagena but never graduated. Instead he became a writer for the Cartagena newspaper Universal, then later, from 1950 through 1952, for the Heraldo in Barranquilla. By 1955 he was a well-known journalist at the Espectador in Bogota. From 1956 to 1958 he wrote fiction and was a freelance journalist in Paris, London, and Caracas, Venezuela. He returned to Barranquilla to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mercedes Bartha, in March 1958. They moved to Caracas, where Garcia Marquez worked...
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