Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neusta...
Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter, Author, Publicist, Actor
Education
University of Bristol
Nationality
Colombia
Spouse
Jack Waters
Children
Gonzalo García Barcha, Rodrigo García
Nicknames
Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez , Gabr Marquez , G. G. Marquez , Gabo , García Márquez, Gabriel , Gabriel José García Márquez , Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez , Gabriel Márquez
Movies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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The world must be fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
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I'm a journalist. I've always been a journalist. My books couldn't have been written if I weren't a journalist because all the material was taken from reality.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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A man know when he is growing old because he looks like his father.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on twenty-four hours a day.
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Fact
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Pictured on a 200p Colombian commemorative postage stamp issued 14 July 2015.
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Pictured on a 55c Spanish commemorative postage stamp, issued 22 April 2015.
After learning that he suffered from lymphatic cancer in 1999, he wrote his autobiography "Vivir para contarla" ("Living to Tell the Tale", 2002).
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His most successful novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985), which was made into the movie Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).
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Worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Geneva, Poland, Hungary, Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, India and New York City.
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Born to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, he was raised by his grandparents Nicolas Ricardo Márquez, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, and Tranquilinia Iguarán Cotes.
$10 Million
