Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez

• Alison Culp
• Jennifer Popich
• Anne Wilson

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Biography

• Born in Aracataca, Columbia on March 6 1928
• Lived with his Grandparents until he was 8 years
  old
• Graduated from a private Jesuit high school in
  1946
• In 1947 Marquez enrolled in law school at the
  National University in Bogotá

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Biography

• On April 9 1948 Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was
  assassinated which started a bloody upheaval,
  while Marquez was studying law
• This caused the National University to be closed
  because of the La Violencia, a civil war between
  the conservatives and the liberals

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Biography

• Marquez left Bogotá and resumed his study of law
  at the University of Cartagena
• While studying he discovered his PASSION for
  writing
• He moved to the city of Barranquilla to work at
  the El Heraldo and joined a group of passionate
  writers
• 1954 accepted a position as a reporter at the El
  Espectador
• In 1955 Marquez published his first short story,
  Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in
  Malacondo and his first novel Leaf Storm

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Biography

• Marquez began writing The Story of a Shipwrecked
  Sailor in 1955, which was in 14 installments of
  the El Espectador
• The Columbian government shut down the newspaper,
  El Espectador.
• So Marquez remained in Europe where he wrote No
  One Writes to the Colonel

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Biography

• In 1957 Marquez returned from Europe and began
  working as a journalist in Caracas
• Two years later, after Fidel Castros revolution
  in Cuba, Marquez joined the Cuban governments
  news agency, Prensa Latina.

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Biography

• 1961 Marquez resigned his position, and moved
  with his wife and son to Mexico City
• Within the first year, he had 3 books published
  No One Writes to the Colonel, In Evil Hour, and
  Big Mamas Funeral.

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Biography

• WRITERS BLOCK!!!!
• Marquez receives a VISION
• This was the magical moment of Macondo, which
  ultimately lead to the creation of ONE HUNDRED
  YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

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• Moved to Spain because of his increased income
  from his recent masterpiece
• In 1975, Marquez vowed to never write fiction
  until the overthrow of Chiles chief of state,
  Pinochet
• Finally left Spain in 1975

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Biography

• Founded the Left-Wing news magazine, Alternativa,
  with hopes of inducing social change in Latin
  America
• His newspaper columns were extremely popular
  throughout Latin America
• In 1986 Marquez revealed in documentary
  Chlandestine in Chile. The Adventures of Miguel
  Littlin.

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Biography

• Since the late 1970s has maintained residences
  in Mexico and Columbia
• In 1999, Marquez was diagnosed with Lymphatic
  Cancer
• Exiled himself to his house to write his memoirs
  which was released in 2003