GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

By: Lorraine M. Carmona Torres

Prof: Evelyn Lugo

ENGG 633

INTRODUCTION

In this presentation I will discuss information

regarding the literary life about my favorite writer:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Some of the information

will discuss is:• How did he began writing?• Some of his works.• Brief biography

BIOGRAPHY

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born in

March 6, 1927. He’s currently 83 years old.

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and

journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin

America. He is considered one of the most significant

authors of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel

Prize in Literature in 1982; he is the earliest winner of

this prize to be still alive.

He pursued a self-directed education that resulted

in his leaving law school for a career in journalism.

From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his

criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958,

he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons,

Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

García Márquez was the first Colombian and fourth

Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

JOURNALISM

García Márquez began his career as a journalist while studying law at the

University of Cartagena. In 1948 and 1949 he wrote for El Universal in

Cartagena. Later, from 1950 until 1952, he wrote a "whimsical" column

under the name of "Septimus" for the local paper El Heraldo in

Barranquilla.

García Márquez noted of his time at El Heraldo, "I'd write a piece and

they'd pay me three pesos for it, and maybe an editorial for another three."

During this time he became an active member of the informal group of

writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, an association

that provided great motivation and inspiration for his literary career.

CONT.

In 1994, along with his brother Jaime and with

lawyer Jaime Abello, he founded the Fundación

Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (New

Iberoamerican Journalism Foundation), which aims

to help young journalists learn with teachers such as

Alma Guillermoprieto or Jon Lee Anderson, and to

stimulate new ways to do journalism. García

Márquez is still the foundation's president.

NOVELS

In Evil Hour (1962)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) *

The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) *

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) *

The General in His Labyrinth (1989) *

Of Love and Other Demons (1994) *

Leaf Storm (1955) *

No One Writes to the Colonel (published 1961 in

Spanish; written in 1956-1957) *

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) *

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004) *

Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories (1978)

Collected Stories (1984)

Strange Pilgrims (1993)

NON FICTION

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)

The Solitude of Latin America (1982)

The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo

Mendoza)

Clandestine in Chile (1986)

News of a Kidnapping (1996)

A Country for Children (1998)

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

CONCLUSION

This is my favorite author. I’ve read 11 out of his

25 books. His novels captivate you and once you

start reading you can’t stop. I began to like reading

with his novel “Cronicas de una Muerte Anunciada”

which I read in highschool. After that I was

captivated by his work.

REFERENCES

Wikipedia

Book: Yo no vengo a decir un discurso – Gabriel

Garcia Marquez (2010)