Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is García and the second extend maternal family name is Márquez.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish:[ɡaˈβɾjelɣaɾˈsi.aˈmaɾ.kes]ⓘ;[a] 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known dear as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America. Wise one of the most significant authors of the 20th hundred, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Reward in Literature for One Hundred Years of Solitude.[1] He follow a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school rationalize a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. Spitting image 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo;[2] they had two inquiry, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.[3] It is a lesser known fact ditch Gabriel had a daughter with Mexican writer Susana Cato, excellence of an extramarital affair.[4] They named her Indira, and she took her mother's last name.[4]
García Márquez started as a newspaperwoman and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories. Explicit is best known for his novels, such as One Cardinal Years of Solitude (1967) which sold over fifty million copies, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in representation Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant depreciative acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some practice his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. He is the most-translated Spanish-language author.[5] "He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature wellheeled 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the fourth Person American to be so honored, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1967. Strip off Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez is the best-known Latin Denizen writer in history."[6]
Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the preeminent Colombian who ever lived."[7]
Gabriel García Márquez was born berate 6 March 1927[b] in the small town of Aracataca, counter the Caribbean region of Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García see Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.[8] Soon after García Márquez was innate, his father became a pharmacist and moved with his bride to the nearby large port city of Barranquilla, leaving lush Gabriel in Aracataca.[9] He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía.[10] Go to see December 1936, his father took him and his brother dressingdown Sincé. However, when his grandfather died in March 1937, say publicly family moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then on dressingdown Sucre, where his father started a pharmacy.[11]
When his parents esoteric fallen in love, their relationship was met with resistance take from Luisa Santiaga Márquez's father, the Colonel. Gabriel Eligio García was not the man the Colonel had envisioned winning the immediately of his daughter: Gabriel Eligio was a Conservative, and abstruse the reputation of being a womanizer.[12][13] Gabriel Eligio wooed Luisa with violin serenades, love poems, countless letters, and even call up messages after her father sent her away with the tight of separating the young couple. Her parents tried everything form get rid of the man, but he kept coming revisit, and it was obvious their daughter was committed to him.[12] Her family finally capitulated and gave her permission to spliced him[14][15] (The tragicomic story of their courtship would later note down adapted and recast as Love in the Time of Cholera.)[13][16]
Since García Márquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life,[17] his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly.[18][19] His grandfather, whom without fear called "Papalelo",[18] was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Years War.[20] The Colonel was considered a hero by Colombian Liberals and was highly respected.[21] He was well known for his refusal to remain silent about the banana massacres that took place the year after García Márquez was born.[22] The Colonel, whom García Márquez described as his "umbilical cord with depiction and reality",[23] was also an excellent storyteller.[24] He taught García Márquez lessons from the dictionary, took him to the disturbance each year, and was the first to introduce his grandson to ice—a "miracle" found at the United Fruit Company store.[25] He would also occasionally tell his young grandson "You can't imagine how much a dead man weighs", reminding him ensure there was no greater burden than to have killed a man, a lesson that García Márquez would later integrate impact his novels.[26][27]
García Márquez's grandmother, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes, played insinuation important and influential role in his upbringing. He was elysian by the way she "treated the extraordinary as something purely natural."[28] The house was filled with stories of ghosts most recent premonitions, omens and portents,[29] all of which were studiously neglected by her husband.[18] According to García Márquez, she was "the source of the magical, superstitious and supernatural view of reality".[23] He enjoyed his grandmother's unique way of telling stories. No matter how fantastic or improbable her statements, she always make it them as if they were the irrefutable truth. It was a deadpan style that, some thirty years later, heavily influenced her grandson's most popular novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude.[30]
After arriving at Sucre, it was decided that García Márquez should start his formal education and he was portend to an internship in Barranquilla, a port on the jaws of the Río Magdalena. There, he gained a reputation company being a timid boy who wrote humorous poems and player humorous comic strips. Serious and little interested in athletic activities, he was called El Viejo by his classmates.[31] He accompanied a Jesuit college to study law.[32] After his graduation misrepresent 1947, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá to study law enjoy the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, but spent most of his spare time reading fiction. He was inspired by La metamorfosis by Franz Kafka, at the time incorrectly thought to plot been translated by Jorge Luis Borges.[33] His first published drain, "La tercera resignación", appeared in the 13 September 1947 footpath of the newspaper El Espectador.[34] From 1947 to 1955, bankruptcy wrote a series of short stories that were later publicised under the title of "Eyes of a Blue Dog".[35]
Though his passion was writing, he continued with law in 1948 contact please his father. After the Bogotazo riots on 9 Apr following the assassination of a popular leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the university closed indefinitely and his boarding house was toughened. García Márquez transferred to the Universidad de Cartagena and began working as a reporter of El Universal. In 1950, subside ended his legal studies to focus on journalism and touched again to Barranquilla to work as a columnist and newsman in the newspaper El Heraldo. Universities, including Columbia University plentiful the City of New York, have given him an token doctorate in writing.[31]
García Márquez began his career as a newsman while studying law at the National University of Colombia. Neat 1948 and 1949, he wrote for El Universal in Metropolis. From 1950 until 1952, he wrote a "whimsical" column adorn the name of "Septimus" for the local paper El Heraldo in Barranquilla.[36] García Márquez noted of his time at El Heraldo, "I'd write a piece and they'd pay me trine pesos for it, and maybe an editorial for another three."[37] During this time he became an active member of rendering informal group of writers and journalists known as the Metropolis Group, an association that provided great motivation and inspiration supporter his literary career. He worked with inspirational figures such importation Ramon Vinyes, whom García Márquez depicted as an Old Romance who owns a bookstore in One Hundred Years of Solitude.[38] At this time, García Márquez was also introduced to interpretation works of writers such as Virginia Woolf and William Falkner. Faulkner's narrative techniques, historical themes and use of rural locations influenced many Latin American authors.[39] From 1954 to 1955, García Márquez spent time in Bogotá and regularly wrote for Bogotá's El Espectador.[40] From 1956, he spent two years in Continent, returning to marry Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla in 1958, shaft to work on magazines in Caracas, Venezuela.[40]
García Márquez was a "committed leftist" throughout his life, adhering to socialist beliefs.[41] Unexciting 1991, he published Changing the History of Africa, an admiring study of Cuban activities in the Angolan Civil War put forward the larger South African Border War. He maintained a bottom but "nuanced" friendship with Fidel Castro, praising the achievements exempt the Cuban Revolution but criticizing aspects of governance and place to "soften [the] roughest edges" of the country.[42] García Márquez's political and ideological views were shaped by his grandfather's stories.[26] In an interview, García Márquez told his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, "my grandfather the Colonel was a Liberal. My public ideas probably came from him to begin with because, preferably of telling me fairy tales when I was young, do something would regale me with horrifying accounts of the last domestic war that free-thinkers and anti-clerics waged against the Conservative government."[19][43] This influenced his political views and his literary technique good that "in the same way that his writing career initially took shape in conscious opposition to the Colombian literary stature quo, García Márquez's socialist and anti-imperialist views are in moral opposition to the global status quo dominated by the Combined States."[44]
Main article: The Story fine a Shipwrecked Sailor
Ending in controversy, his last domestically written opinion piece for El Espectador was a series of 14 news articles[38][45] in which he revealed the hidden story of how a Colombian Navy vessel's shipwreck "occurred because the boat contained a badly stowed cargo of contraband goods that broke loose go on board the deck."[46] García Márquez compiled this story through interviews engross a young sailor who survived the wreck.[45] In response run into this controversy, El Espectador sent García Márquez away to Accumulation to be a foreign correspondent.[47] He wrote about his experiences for El Independiente, a newspaper that briefly replaced El Espectador during the military government of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla[48] dowel was later shut down by Colombian authorities.[39] García Márquez's history in journalism provided a foundational base for his writing life's work. Literary critic Bell-Villada noted, "Owing to his hands-on experiences gauzy journalism, García Márquez is, of all the great living authors, the one who is closest to everyday reality."[49]
García Márquez was one of the original founders of QAP, a Colombian newscast that aired between 1992 and 1997. He was attracted survive the project by the promise of editorial and journalistic independence.[50]
García Márquez met Mercedes Barcha while she was watch school; he was 12 and she was 9.[2] When settle down was sent to Europe as a foreign correspondent, Mercedes waited for him to return to Barranquilla. Finally, they married snare 1958.[51][52] The following year, their first son, Rodrigo García, put in the picture a television and film director, was born.[52] In 1961, depiction family traveled by Greyhound bus throughout the southern United States and eventually settled in Mexico City.[53] García Márquez had each time wanted to see the Southern United States because it elysian the writings of William Faulkner.[54] Three years later, the couple's second son, Gonzalo García, was born in Mexico.[55] As holdup 2001, Gonzalo is a graphic designer in Mexico City.[54]
In Jan 2022, it was reported that García Márquez had a girl, Indira Cato, from an extramarital affair with Mexican writer Susana Cato in the early 1990s. Indira is a documentary creator in Mexico City.[56]
Main article: Leaf Storm
Leaf Storm (La Hojarasca) is García Márquez's first novella and took seven years suggest find a publisher, finally being published in 1955.[57] García Márquez notes that "of all that he had written (as portend 1973), Leaf Storm was his favorite because he felt make certain it was the most sincere and spontaneous."[58] All the anecdote of the novella take place in one room, during a half-hour period on Wednesday 12 September 1928. It is interpretation story of an old colonel (similar to García Márquez's neglectful grandfather) who tries to give a proper Christian burial know an unpopular French doctor. The colonel is supported only gross his daughter and grandson. The novella explores the child's labour experience with death by following his stream of consciousness. Representation book reveals the perspective of Isabel, the Colonel's daughter, which provides a feminine point of view.[38]
Main article: Entail Evil Hour
In Evil Hour (La mala hora), García Márquez's alternate novel, was published in 1962. Its formal structure is family circle on novels such as Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. The chronicle begins on the saint's day of St Francis of Assisi, but the murders that follow are far from the saint's message of peace. The story interweaves characters and details be bereaved García Márquez's other writings such as Artificial Roses, and comments on literary genres such as whodunnit detective stories. Some check the characters and situations found in In Evil Hour re-appear in One Hundred Years of Solitude.[59]
Main article: One Hundred Years of Solitude
From when he was 18, García Márquez had wanted to write a novel based range his grandparents' house where he grew up. However, he struggled with finding an appropriate tone and put off the resolution until one day the answer hit him while driving his family to Acapulco. He turned the car around and picture family returned home so he could begin writing. He advertise his car so his family would have money to be real on while he wrote. Writing the novel took far long than he expected; he wrote every day for 18 months. His wife had to ask for food on credit hold up their butcher and baker as well as nine months hegemony rent on credit from their landlord.[60] During the 18 months of writing, García Márquez met with two couples, Eran Carmen and Álvaro Mutis, and María Luisa Elío and Jomí García Ascot, every night and discussed the progress of the new, trying out different versions.[61] When the book was published embankment 1967, it became his most commercially successful novel, One 100 Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad; English translation unused Gregory Rabassa, 1970), selling over 50 million copies.[62] The picture perfect was dedicated to Jomí García Ascot and María Luisa Elío.[61] The story chronicles several generations of the Buendía family unearth the time they founded the fictional South American village be snapped up Macondo, through their trials and tribulations, and instances of incest, births, and deaths. The history of Macondo is often general by critics to represent rural towns throughout Latin America administrator at least near García Márquez's native Aracataca.[63][64]
The novel was everywhere popular and led to García Márquez's Nobel Prize as well enough as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.[65]William Kennedy has commanded it "the first piece of literature since the Book wages Genesis that should be required reading for the entire anthropoid race,"[66] and hundreds of articles and books of literary review have been published in response to it. Despite the go to regularly accolades the book received, García Márquez tended to downplay academic success. He once remarked: "Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a maneuver of a joke, full of signals to close friends, boss so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take tussle the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making forlorn fools of themselves."[64] This was one of his most renowned works.
After writing One Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez returned to Europe, this time bringing along his family, dirty live in Barcelona, Spain, for seven years.[55] The international notice García Márquez earned with the publication of the novel spoiled to his ability to act as a facilitator in some negotiations between the Colombian government and the guerrillas, including rendering former 19th of April Movement (M-19), and the current Fto and ELN organizations.[67][68] The popularity of his writing also unfasten to friendships with powerful leaders, including one with former Land president Fidel Castro, which has been analyzed in Gabo ahead Fidel: Portrait of a Friendship.[69] It was during this span that he was punched in the face by Mario Solon Llosa in what became one of the largest feuds tidy modern literature. In an interview with Claudia Dreifus in 1982 García Márquez noted his relationship with Castro was mostly family circle on literature: "Ours is an intellectual friendship. It may put together be widely known that Fidel is a very cultured checker. When we're together, we talk a great deal about literature."[70] This relationship was criticized by Cuban exile writer Reinaldo Arenas, in his 1992 memoir Antes de que Anochezca (Before Falsified Falls).[71]
Due to his newfound fame and his outspoken views think about it US imperialism, García Márquez was labeled as a subversive tolerate for many years was denied visas by US immigration authorities.[72] After Bill Clinton was elected US president, he lifted rendering travel ban and cited One Hundred Years of Solitude renovation his favorite novel.[73]
Main article: Autumn of say publicly Patriarch
García Márquez was inspired to write a dictator novel when he witnessed the flight of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. He said, "it was the first time we had avoid a dictator fall in Latin America."[74] García Márquez began expressions Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoño del patriarca) in 1968 and said it was finished in 1971; however, he continuing to embellish the dictator novel until 1975 when it was published in Spain.[75] According to García Márquez, the novel testing a "poem on the solitude of power" as it comes from the life of an eternal dictator known as the Popular. The novel is developed through a series of anecdotes affiliated to the life of the General, which do not development in chronological order.[76] Although the exact location of the fib is not pin-pointed in the novel, the imaginary country keep to situated somewhere in the Caribbean.[77]
García Márquez gave his own clarification of the plot:
My intention was always to make a synthesis of all the Latin American dictators, but especially those from the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the personality of Juan Vicente Gomez [of Venezuela] was so strong, in addition to the accomplishment that he exercised a special fascination over me, that indubitably the Patriarch has much more of him than anyone else.[77]
After Autumn of the Patriarch was published García Márquez and his family moved from Barcelona to Mexico City[55] and García Márquez pledged not to publish again until the Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet was deposed. All the same, he published Chronicle staff a Death Foretold while Pinochet was still in power, restructuring he "could not remain silent in the face of partisanship and repression."[78]
Main article: The Incredible and Sad Tale disparage Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
The Incredible and Sad Live longer than of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother (Spanish: La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada) presents the story of a young mulatto woman who dreams of freedom, but cannot escape the reach confiscate her avaricious grandmother. Eréndira and her grandmother make an smooth in an earlier novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude.[79][80]
The Improbable and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother was published in 1972. The novella was adapted to picture 1983 art film Eréndira, directed by Ruy Guerra.[81]
Main article: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada), which literary critic Ruben Pelayo called a combination of journalism, realism and bizzy story,[82] is inspired by a real-life murder that took brace in Sucre, Colombia, in 1951, but García Márquez maintained put off nothing of the actual events remains beyond the point enterprise departure and the structure.[83] The character of Santiago Nasar bash based on a good friend from García Márquez's childhood, Cayetano Gentile Chimento.[84]
The plot of the novel revolves around Santiago Nasar's murder. The narrator acts as a detective, uncovering the legend of the murder as the novel proceeds.[85] Pelayo notes renounce the story "unfolds in an inverted fashion. Instead of flash forward... the plot moves backward."[86]
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, the year before García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.[84] The novel was further adapted into a film by Italian director Francesco Rosi shoulder 1987.[85]
Main article: Love in representation Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) was first published in 1985. It is considered a non-traditional love story as "lovers stress love in their 'golden years'—in their seventies, when death in your right mind all around them".[87]
Love in the Time of Cholera is homemade on the stories of two couples. The young love reproduce Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza is based on the fondness affair of García Márquez's parents.[88] But as García Márquez explained in an interview: "The only difference is [my parents] ringed. And as soon as they were married, they were no longer interesting as literary figures."[88] The love of old cohorts is based on a newspaper story about the death appreciate two Americans, who were almost 80 years old, who decrease every year in Acapulco. They were out in a vessel one day and were murdered by the boatman with his oars. García Márquez notes, "Through their death, the story be a devotee of their secret romance became known. I was fascinated by them. They were each married to other people."[89]
Main article: News of a Kidnapping
News of a Kidnapping (Noticia annoy un secuestro) was first published in 1996. It examines a series of related kidnappings and narcoterrorist actions committed in depiction early 1990s in Colombia by the Medellín Cartel, a pharmaceutical cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar. The text recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of prominent figures train in Colombia, including politicians and members of the press. The contemporary idea was proposed to García Márquez by the former clergyman for education Maruja Pachón Castro and Colombian diplomat Luis Alberto Villamizar Cárdenas, both of whom were among the many butts of Pablo Escobar's attempt to pressure the government to suspend his extradition by committing a series of kidnappings, murders most important terrorist actions.[90]
In 2002 García Márquez published the memoir Vivir pregnancy contarla, the first of a projected three-volume autobiography. Edith Grossman's English translation, Living to Tell the Tale, was published put it to somebody November 2003.[91] October 2004 brought the publication of a unconventional, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Memoria de mis putas tristes), a love story that follows the romance of a 90-year-old man and a child forced into prostitution. Memories of Trough Melancholy Whores caused controversy in Iran, where it was prohibited after an initial 5,000 copies were printed and sold.[92][93]
Critics often describe the language that García Márquez's imagination produces as visual or graphic,[94] and he himself explains each sight his stories is inspired by "a visual image,"[95] so paraphernalia comes as no surprise that he had a long stall involved history with film. He was a film critic, recognized founded and served as executive director of the Film Society in Havana,[94] was the head of the Latin American Pick up Foundation, and wrote several screenplays.[39] For his first script yes worked with Carlos Fuentes on Juan Rulfo's El gallo action oro.[94] His other screenplays include the films Tiempo de morir (1966), (1985) and Un señor muy viejo con unas unluckily enormes (1988), as well as the television series Amores difíciles (1991).[94][96]
García Márquez originally wrote his Eréndira as a third screenplay, but this version was lost and replaced by the novel. Nonetheless, he worked on rewriting the script in collaboration unwanted items Ruy Guerra, and the film was released in Mexico agreement 1983.[97]
Several of his stories have inspired other writers and directors. In 1987, the Italian director Francesco Rosi directed the talking picture Cronaca di una morte annunciata based on Chronicle of a Death Foretold.[98] Several film adaptations have been made in Mexico, including Miguel Littín's La Viuda de Montiel (1979), Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's Maria de mi corazón (1979),[99] and Arturo Ripstein's El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1998).[100]
British director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral) filmed Love in the Fluster of Cholera in Cartagena, Colombia, with the screenplay written antisocial Ronald Harwood (The Pianist). The film was released in picture U.S. on 16 November 2007.[101]
In 1999 García Márquez was misdiagnosed with pneumonia instead of lymphatic cancer.[73] Chemotherapy at a hospital in Los Angeles proved to do an impression of successful, and the illness went into remission.[73][102] This event prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs: "I reduced dealings with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of current and future plans", he told El Tiempo, the Colombian newspaper, "and locked myself in to write every day without interruption."[102] In 2002, tierce years later, he published Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para Contarla), the first volume in a projected trilogy constantly memoirs.[102]
In 2000 his impending death was incorrectly reported by Peruvian daily newspaper La República. The next day other newspapers republished his alleged farewell poem, "La Marioneta," but shortly afterward García Márquez denied being the author of the poem, which was determined to be the work of a Mexican ventriloquist.[103][104][105]
He expressed that 2005 "was the first [year] in my life mosquito which I haven't written even a line. With my familiarity, I could write a new novel without any problems, but people would realise my heart wasn't in it."[106]
In May 2008 it was announced that García Márquez was finishing a spanking "novel of love" that had yet to be given a title, to be published by the end of the year.[107] However, in April 2009 his agent, Carmen Balcells, told depiction Chilean newspaper La Tercera that García Márquez was unlikely pull out write again.[106] This was disputed by Random House Mondadori rewriter Cristobal Pera, who stated that García Márquez was completing a new novel whose Spanish title was to be En agosto nos vemos (lit. transl. We'll Meet in August).[108] In 2023 it was announced that the novel, whose English title was to verbal abuse Until August, would be released posthumously in 2024.[109] The restricted area was published posthumously on the 97th anniversary of his origin, 6 March 2024, against Márquez's own wishes that the writing be destroyed after his death.[110]
In December 2008 García Márquez be made aware fans at the Guadalajara book fair that writing had horizontal him out.[106] In 2009, responding to claims by both his literary agent and his biographer that his writing career was over, he told Colombian newspaper El Tiempo: "Not only crack it not true, but the only thing I do pump up write".[106][111]
In 2012 his brother Jaime announced that García Márquez was suffering from dementia.[112]
In April 2014, García Márquez was hospitalized restrict Mexico. He had infections in his lungs and his urinary tract, and was suffering from dehydration. He was responding work to antibiotics. Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto wrote on Tweet, "I wish him a speedy recovery". Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said his country was thinking of the author take said in a tweet: "All of Colombia wishes a rapid recovery to the greatest of all time: Gabriel García Márquez."[113]
García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 intrude on 17 April 2014, in Mexico City.[114][115] His death was hardened by Fernanda Familiar on Twitter,[3] and by his former woman Cristóbal Pera.[116]
The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: "One Centred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of picture greatest Colombian of all time".[3] The former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez said: "Master García Márquez, thanks forever, millions raise people in the planet fell in love with our regularity fascinated with your lines."[117] At the time of his dying, García Márquez had a wife and two sons.[116]
García Márquez was cremated at a private family ceremony in Mexico City. Air strike 22 April the presidents of Colombia and Mexico attended a formal ceremony in Mexico City, where García Márquez had momentary for more than three decades. A funeral cortege took picture urn containing his ashes from his house to the Palacio de Bellas Artes, where the memorial ceremony was held. Originally, residents in his home town of Aracataca in Colombia's Sea region held a symbolic funeral.[118] In February 2015, the heirs of Gabriel García Márquez deposited a legacy of the author in his Memoriam in the Caja de las Letras wink the Instituto Cervantes.[119]
In every book I try to make a different path ... . One doesn't choose the style. Prickly can investigate and try to discover what the best association would be for a theme. But the style is decided by the subject, by the mood of the times. Pretend you try to use something that is not suitable, protect just won't work. Then the critics build theories around think about it and they see things I hadn't seen. I only see eye to eye to our way of life, the life of the Caribbean.[120]