Gabriel García Márquez - Every thinks you need to know about him

Gabriel García Márquez - Every thinks you need to know about him

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.Márquez was awarded the #NobelPrize in 1982 for his novels and short stories in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined.

Nobel Prize: Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". 

Gabriel García Márquez acceptance speech was entitled "The Solitude of Latin America".García Márquez was the first Colombian and fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

After becoming a Nobel laureate, García Márquez stated to a correspondent: "I have the impression that in giving me the prize, they have taken into account the literature of the sub-continent and have awarded me as a way of awarding all of this literature".

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List of work:

Novels

• In Evil Hour (1962)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
• The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
• The General in His Labyrinth (1989)
• Of Love and Other Demons (1994)

Novellas

• Leaf Storm (1955)
• No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
• The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother (1972)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004)

Short story collections

• Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947)
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1955)
• Big Mama's Funeral (1962)
• One of These Days (1962)
• Collected Stories (1984)
• Strange Pilgrims (1993)
• La Día Prodigiosa de Baltazar (1980)

Non-fiction

• The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (1970)
• The Solitude of Latin America (1982)
• The Fragrance of Guava (1982, with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza)
• Clandestine in Chile (1986)
• Changing the History of Africa: Angola and Namibia (1991, with David Deutschmann)
• News of a Kidnapping (1996)
• A Country for Children (1998)
• Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City. His death was confirmed by his relative Fernanda Familiar on Twitter and by his former editor Cristóbal Pera.

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The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: "One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time".The former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez said: "Master García Márquez, thanks forever, millions of people in the planet fell in love with our nation fascinated with your lines".At the time of his death, he had a wife and two sons.