TopDuring his time in Bogotá, García Márquez excelled in several sports, becoming captain of the National High School of Zipaquirá in three disciplines: football, baseball and athleticsic principal
Began his career as a journalist while studying law at the university in 1948 and wrote for the newspaper El Universal de Cartagena from 1950 to 1952, wrote a capricious column with the pseudonym of Septimus for the local newspaper El Heraldo de Barranquilla.
The fame of Gabito began when one hundred years of solitude was published in June of 1967 and in one week it sold 8000 copies. From then on, success was assured and the novel sold a new edition every week, selling half a million copies in three years.principal
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His most outstanding works of his literary career
The leaf litter (1955)
The Colonel has no one to write to him (1961)
The Bad Hour (1964) - Full cast and crew
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
Chronicle of a Death Announced (1981)
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
The General in his Maze (1989)
From Love and Other Demons (1994)
Memory of my sad whores (2004)
Writer of Colombian literature born in Aracataca, March 6, 1927.
He was characterized as a shy man, since he was a child, but his maturity was a great conversationalist who was not short of words, but never managed to handle shyness.
Acknowledgments of his literary career
He was the first Colombian and the fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, after which he stated: "I have the impression that love is the prize that took into account the literature of the subcontinent and I love as a form of Award of the whole of this literature '.
García Márquez has received many other awards, distinctions and tributes for his works as listed below:
Prize of the ESSO Novel by The Bad Hour (1961).
Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Columbia in New York (1971).
Rómulo Gallegos Award for One Hundred Years of Solitude (1972).
Prize Jorge Dimitrov for Peace (1979).
Medal of the Legion of Honor of France in Paris (1981).
Aztec Eagle Award in Mexico (1982).
Forty years of the Bogota Journalists' Circle (1985).
Honorary member of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogota (1993).
Museum: On March 25, 2010 the Colombian government finished rebuilding the house where García Márquez was born in Aracataca, because it had been demolished 40 years ago, and inaugurated a museum dedicated to its memory with more than fourteen environments that recreate The Spaces in which his childhood passed.41
In the East of Los Angeles (California), in the municipality of Las Rozas de Madrid and in Zaragoza (Spain) there are streets that take its name.
In Bogota, the Fondo de Cultura Económica de México built a cultural center that bears its name, inaugurated on January 30, 2008 [6].
In 2015, the Bank of the Republic of Colombia announced a new series of tickets where its image will appear, more precisely on the $ 50,000 pesos ticket that will start circulation in 2016.42
Death of Gabito
Gabito died April 17 at his 87 years in Mexico, a country where he lived a few decades ago, for having cancer, had a relapse of health and fatal pneumonia and ended with his life.