Gabriel García Márquez
1928-
Other Works
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Law Student Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He attended high school on a scholarship and then enrolled in law school, first at the National University in Bogotá and then at the University of Cartagena. In 1948, he interrupted his law studies to take a job writing for a Cartagena newspaper.
Controversial Journalist Although he is best known today as a novelist and short-story writer, García Márquez thinks of himself primarily as a journalist. He became a highly respected news correspondent in Colombia during the 1950s and, over the years, has worked as a journalist in many cities, including London, Paris, New York, and Mexico City. As a journalist,
he often criticizes Latin American politics and governments. After writing about the illegal activities of his own government, he eventually decided to move his family out of Colombia. They lived in a variety of places, including Paris, Rome, and Mexico City. In the 1980s, the government of Chile burned nearly 15,000 copies of a book in which García Márquez criticized the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
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