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The only son of Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, he was born in Aracataca, department of Magdalena, Colombia, on Sunday, March 6, 1927 at nine in the morning, as the writer himself refers in his memoirs.

During his adolescence García Márquez attended the first grades of secondary school at San School since 1940, where he published his first poems in the school magazine Juventud. He practiced several sports becoming captain of the Liceo Nacional de Zipaquirá team in three disciplines, soccer, baseball and athletics.In 1947 García Márquez remained in Bogotá to study law at the National University of Colombia, where he had a special dedication to reading. The metamorphosis of Franz Kafka. At that moment the emotion of writing was born, not traditional literature, but in a style similar to the stories of his grandmother.In 1948 he continued his law career to please his father, then moved to the University of Cartagena and began working as a reporter for El Universal. He gave up on becoming a lawyer to devote himself to journalism and moved back to Barranquilla to work as a columnist and reporter in the newspaper El Heraldo.

In June 1967 he published his book One Hundred Years of Solitude that catapulted him to fame. On a daily basis he had meetings with important people including former Cuban President Fidel Castro.

On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Gabriel García Márquez dies in Mexico, leaving a renovating work for the Latin American literary tradition.
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