Portal 1: Physical description:

Physical Description

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, our Nobel Prize winner was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca Magdalena - Colombia, he died at age 87 on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City - Mexico, Gabo as he was known in his physical features Gabo takes after his father, had white skin, had black eyes, he always had a smile on his face, which represented that he was very happy, had white hair because he is quite old, had wide and clear front and by his advanced age he had lost part of his hair, had large ears and blunt tips, had moles and some spots on his face, his nose was flattened and a little wide, had a white mustache and populated like his eyebrows, despite his age He did not reflect a face with many wrinkles, only had in the contour of his eyes, he was neither very thin nor very fat, his stature on average did not exceed 1.70 and always with a look that reflected joy. During his career, Garcia Marquez managed turn into best Colombian writer and for that reason Colombia look up to their writer.

Portal 2: Personal Information

Personal Information

Full name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

Nickname: Gabo and Gabito

Place of birth: Municipality of Aracata, Magdalena, Colombia

Date of birth: March 6, 1927

Colombian nationality

Religion: Agnostic

Family

He grew up with his maternal grandparents: Tranquilina Iguarán Cortés and Colonel Nicolás Márquez

The colonel, whom Gabriel called "Papalelo", describing him as his "umbilical cord with history and reality", was also an excellent narrator and taught him, for example, to consult frequently the dictionary

Her grandmother, Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes, whom García Márquez calls grandmother Mina and describes as "an imaginative and superstitious woman" who filled the house with stories of ghosts, premonitions, was as influential in García Márquez as her husband and is even pointed out for the writer as her first and main literary influence, for she was inspired by the original way in which she treated the extraordinary as something perfectly natural when she told stories and no matter how fantastic or improbable her stories were

Spouse: He married in Barranquilla in 1958 with Mercedes Barcha, the daughter of an apothecary. In 1959 they had their first son, Rodrigo, who became a filmmaker; and three years later, his second son, Gonzalo, was born. He is currently a graphic designer in Mexico City. Mercedes Barcha Pardo

Children: Rodrigo and Gonzalo

Education

Educated at: National University of Colombia

Although Gabriel García Márquez never finished his higher education, some like the University of Columbia and New York granted him a Doctorate Honoris Causa, in Letters

Professional information

Occupation: Writer, journalist, editor and screenwriter

Active years: 1947-2010

Movements: Latin American boom, magical realism

Political activity

He had a strong friendship with Fidel Castro.

Politics plays an important role in the works of García Márquez, in which he uses representations of various types of societies with different political forms to present his opinions and beliefs with concrete examples, even if they are fictitious examples. That diversity of ways that García Márquez represents political power is a sign of the importance of politics in his works

Language of literary production: Spanish

Genres Novel, story, chronicle, report

In the year of 1955 he published his first novel "La Hojarasca"

In the city of Mexico, he wrote Cien Años De Soledad, published in June 1967 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The success of this novel was resounding and translated more than 24 languages ​​winning four international awards. In 1969 the novel won the Chianciano Appreciate in Italy and was named "The Best Foreign Book" in France.

Notable works:

One hundred years of loneliness

A Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The colonel has no one to write

Story of a castaway

Love in the times of cholera

Distinctions: Nobel Prize for Literature (1982)

Death: In 1999 he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, he died at 87 years old, on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City.

Portal 3: His/her daily routine

His/her Daily Routine

The last days of the great writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez before dying were to be in his country next to his wife, surrounded by his family and his great friends who went to his home occasionally.

He dedicated himself to rest in his farm surrounded by books and his wife who was his great companion, who every day was getting a coffee and reminded him how important it was for her.

In the mornings he woke up with great fatigue and fatigue due to his state of health and spent hours reading and remembering how his life had been alongside his wife and friends and sometimes he received some celebrities or political figures. his brother Fernando Marquez, who was always his great companion, accompanied him on difficult days when he became ill and had to go to the doctor or when he had memory problems, that is, he forgot things.

Despite the fact that it was the usual activity, the healthy hustle and bustle, it was six months ago that Gabriel García Márquez, after being diagnosed with "general exhaustion", settled down in Los Angeles, near his family and doctors, where he found the tranquility to finish writing his long-awaited memories. The first volume will appear, according to the reporter of the Colombian magazine Alejandra de Vengoechea Credential, at the latest in May and it will be the literary and editorial event of the year. A book that begins with his birth and arrives until 1955, the year in which he moved to Paris. Today El Cultural has approached the writer's workshop and publishes a story about how he lives, who investigates him, how the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" writes, who also has almost ready a book of love stories.

Portal 4: Why you think is the most influential Colombian person.

Why you think is the most influential Colombian person

Gabriel García Márquez, is an influential person because he was born in poverty in a town called Aracataca, raised by his grandparents, from which he took advantage of his oral tradition of Caribbean legends and became a wonderful journalist and novelist, recognized not only here in Colombia but worldwide.

He is influential because he excelled and also continues to excel in the world, for his collection of such different literary works that he wrote for, for and of the people that led him to be nominated and be elected winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and that by accepting it He said, “we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia.  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…” (García Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America).

He is an influential novelist, respected and followed, by many people, for example, the great majority of famous and important writers from Germany, France, the United States, Italy, Spain and many other nations including all of Latin America.

Gabriel García Márquez, is one of the most valuable authors of literature. And not only of Latin American literature or written in Spanish. But of the world literature, because no other has had a comparable global and cultural impact. That is why he is bigger than people sometimes know or remember, and that is why his figure is even more exceptional in the history of novels in Spanish and that he is proudly Colombian.

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry” (Gabriel García Márquez)

Portal 5: What is his/her house like?

What is his/her house like? 

Picture A:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez is writing on a typewriter.
- Gabo thinks what to write.
- He has a lamp on his desk.
- He's writing his new book.
- He can write a new journalistic article

Picture B:
- You may have to organize the library in another way
- He thinks what else he can write to that chapter
- He works on his new book
- He can also write by hand

Picture C:
- Gabriel García Márquez is talking on the phone.
- He can sell his own book
- He could be the best candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature


Picture D:
- Gabriel García Márquez read a book
- He uses his glasses to read from near and far
- We should read the books of Gabo all the time
- Finally Gabo finishes writing the book
- He read in a small room.