Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Latin journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was born on March 6th, 1927 and passed away April 17th, 2014. However, there were no birth certificates issues to his village during this time so there are some reports he was actually born in 1928. He was born in Aracatara, Columbia and was the oldest child of twelve. Mainly his grandparents raised him. He began a career in journalism while working at a newspaper while studying for a law degree, which he ultimately left in 1950. The first published work by Marquez was “The Third Resignation” which began his career. His work consistently has a theme of fantasy. He writes mainly fictional pieces bringing realistic events together with fictional stories. He combined his grandmother’s stories and grandfather’s political views, which appeared to be magic realism. Marquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. He became an advocate fighting for social justice for political prisoners and revolutionary governments in Latin America. Marquez claimed retirement in 2008 but there were beliefs he continued writing after this. In 2012 he was battling lymphatic cancer and was going through treatment. A quote from Marquez speaks of a “new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth”. He connected the struggles of the Latin American people and his work.
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