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Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez March 1927 April 2014 was a Colombian novelist, shortstory writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a selfdirected 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 had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born onMarch 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio Garca and Luisa Santiaga Mrquez Iguarn. Soon after Garca Mrquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved, with his wife, to Barranquilla, leaving young Gabito in Aracataca. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doa Tranquilina Iguarn and Colonel Nicols Ricardo Mrquez Meja. In December 1936, his father took him and his brother to Sinc, while in March 1937, his grandfather died the family then moved first to Barranquilla and then on to Sucre, where his father started up a pharmacy.

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