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)