Gabriel Marquez
Gabriel Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story 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 self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 March 1927
CityAracataca, Colombia
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.
It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.
A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line.
My vocabulary isn't very good. I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary.
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.