GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ,BY MARIA DE JESUS URZUA RAYGOZA INGLES, HUMANIDADES "B"
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BIRTH
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, Gabo Born on March 6, at nine in the morning, in Aracataca (Magdalena). -
PARENTS
Since Gabo was a child, he had a difficult relationship with his dad. Gerald Martin, the writer's biographer, notes: “The father would disappoint his son often in the years - and decades - that followed. They would never have an easy or close relationship. " -
1938
Gabriel, his parents and his brothers go to live in Barranquilla, where his father sets up a pharmacy. -
1939
Rita, his sister, was born, named in honor of Saint Rita of Casia, for “the patience with which she endured the bad character of her lost husband” (something similar to what happened to Luisa Santiaga with Gabriel Eligio). In total, Gabo had ten siblings. -
1943
He arrived in Bogotá in January dreaming of studying at the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé. He gets a scholarship at the National Men's High School in Zipaquirá and on March 8 he arrives "to that frozen town that was an injustice." Despite that memory, he also declares: "everything I learned, I owe to high school." There he wrote some poems and fell in love with literature forever. -
1947
He reads La metamorfosis, by Kafka for the first time and, fascinated, he says: “shit, that's how my grandmother talked”. The next day, he wrote his first story: "The third resignation", which appears in the newspaper El Espectador on September 13. Six weeks later, they publish, there too, another of his stories: "Eva is inside her cat." -
1947
On February 25, he enrolled at the National University of Colombia to study Law. He lives in Bogotá, in a pension, near the corner of Avenida Jiménez and Carrera Octava. -
1949
In December, he decides to leave Cartagena. His new destination is Barranquilla. Leave law studies forever. In "La Arenosa" he befriends the Barranquilla Group, made up of young intellectuals: Alfonso Fuenmayor, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Alejandro Obregón and Germán Vargas, among others. He begins to write La Hojarasca, his first glimpse into a family saga settled in Macondo. -
1951
Fleeing the violence that began in 1948, Gabo's family settled in Cartagena and he decided to live with her. He continues to write for El Heraldo and later gets a new job at El Universal. Her father wants her to study again, but he tells her that he is going to dedicate himself to literature. Then Gabriel Eligio lets go of the phrase: “you will eat paper!”. -
1955
He publishes in El Espectador the testimonies of Luis Alejandro Velasco, the only survivor of a shipwreck (fifteen years later, the book Narrative of a Shipwreck would come out of them). And finally the leaf litter, with the stamp of Ediciones Sipa, is in the streets. -
1959
On January 1, the Cuban Revolution triumphs and 17 days later, the new government invites Gabo to cover the issue. Thus was born his close relationship with that country.
In April, Prensa Latina, a news agency that supports the Cuban Revolution, appointed Gabriel García Márquez and Plinio Apuleyo as directors of its headquarters in Bogotá.
On August 24 Rodrigo, their first child, was born. He is baptized by the Bogota priest Camilo Torres Restrepo, later known as ‘the guerrilla priest’ -
1966
He works on One Hundred Years of Solitude until August. He has quit his job at the ad agency. These are tough times for your financial life. After sending the manuscript to Editorial Sudamericana, in Buenos Aires, Mercedes tells him: "now the only thing missing is that this novel is bad." -
CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD
On May 30, the Argentine publisher Sudamericana publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude, the story of the Buendía family and its seven generations. -
1970
In January, One Hundred Years of Solitude is chosen as the Best Foreign Novel published the previous year in France. On September 4, the Chilean people chose by majority as their president the socialist Salvador Allende. -
1972
García Márquez publishes the book of stories The incredible and sad story of the candid Eréndira and her heartless grandmother.
One Hundred Years of Solitude wins the Rómulo Gallegos award. -
NOBEL
On October 21, at 5:59 a.m., García Márquez receives a call from Pierre Schori, Swedish Deputy Foreign Minister, announcing that he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
On December 10, in Stockholm, with a liquilique (in honor of his grandfather, Colonel Márquez), he received the Nobel. Days before he delivered the speech "The loneliness of Latin America" -
1998
In January, Pope John Paul II visits Cuba. Gabo accompanies Fidel in a good part of the official events. -
1999
Arturo Ripstein directs the film adaptation of The Colonel has no one to write. In January, Gabo and a group of people buy Cambio magazine.
That year he was diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer of a part of the immune system, called the lymphatic system. -
2009
Gerald Martin, English critic, launches the biography Gabriel García Márquez. A life, the fruit of 17 years of work. Upon meeting her, Gabo comments: “Don't worry. I will be what you say I am ”,“ more than an official biography, it is a tolerated biography ”,“ everyone should have an English biographer ”. -
DEATH
The death of the writer was confirmed in Mexico around 2:50 p.m. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he was admitted and after the news of his death was known, dozens of journalists gathered around his house who, since the news of his hospitalization, established a permanent guard at the site. On April 17, at the age of 87, Gabriel García Márquez died in Mexico. The author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" suffered from lymphatic cancer.