Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born on the 6th of March, 1927. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as "Gabo" throughout Latin America. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was responsible for the novels, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch", and "Love in the Time of Cholera" as well as many others. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As a growing man, Gabriel Garcia Marquez decided to pursue Law but eventually left in order to pursue Journalism. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was built notoriety for himself largely by building notoriety for the literary genre known as "magic realism" and oftentimes set his story in the fictional village of "Macondo" and Garcia Marquez often explored the theme of Solitude. 

Gabriel's use of magical elements in otherwise realistic situations built a genre that people could truly feel a strong yearning and desire for as escape is always a large desire for readers. Gabriel Garcia Marquez became a Nobel Prize Winner in 1972 for his work, "100 Years of Solitude."

Yesterday, at the age of 87, Gabriel passed away due to Pneumonia in Mexico City.

At this, the Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: "One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time".