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(Aracataca, Colombia, 1927 - Mexico D.F., 2014) Colombian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and one of the great masters of universal literature.

The years of his early childhood in Aracataca would decisively mark his work as a writer; The fabulous richness of the oral traditions transmitted by his grandparents nourished much of his work. From a very young age in the capital of Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez studied law and journalism at the National University and began his first journalistic collaborations in the newspaper El Espectador. At the age of twenty-eight he published his first novel, La hojarasca (1955), in which he already pointed out some of the most characteristic features of his work of fiction. 

In this first book and some of the novels and stories that followed began to see the village of Macondo and some characters that would configure One Hundred Years of Solitude After a season in Paris, Gabriel García Márquez settled in Barcelona in 1969, where he became friends with Spanish intellectuals, like Carlos Barral, and South Americans, like Mario Vargas Llosa. His stay there was decisive for the concretion of what was known as the Boom of Hispanic American literature, which was the international discovery of the young and not so young narrators of the continent: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, the Mexicans Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes and the Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti, among others. In 1972, he won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize, and a few years later returned to Latin America to reside alternately in Cartagena de Indias and Mexico City, mainly due to the political instability of his country.

The family of this literary author is conformed by his parents Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez who left him from the five years of age with his grandfathers Nicolas Marquez a great colonel and Tranquilina Iguarán a woman of many stories and fables with them lived the Most of his childhood until those who finished his primary studies since his grandfather died and sent him again with his parents in Sucre where he was hospitalized, he met Mercedes Barcha from the age of 9 and at 14 he proposed to her, however, she 26 years in March of 1958 contracted marriage in Barranquilla with Mercedes Barcha, union of which would be born two children: Rodrigo (1959), and Gonzalo (1962)

His daily routine

Gabriel garcia marquez was know for his  different activities since his childhood, one of them was practicing soccer, baseball and athletics, besides this he liked to read and listen to stories of his grandmother. when he grew up he liked to write poems and others, also he liked to paint Humorous cartoons, he studyed  journalism and  he  work on this .

He liked to meet in Barranquilla with his group of friends in a coffee or a bar to talk about poems, articles and literary works, spent until the wee hours  , he liked to go out with his friends and go for a walk or drink.

He also liked spending time with his family, he enjoyed to travel to paris, hungary and others countries, and in his free time he mostly read and write books, stories and others.

Activities he likes and dislikes

Gabriel García Márquez has his own likes and dislikes for example:

He liked to have a mustache, his hair a little long and disheveled, his favorite and only barber wasPietro Morittu, he liked the yellow color that was why he believed that yellow flowers attracted good luck also he liked shakira's music,he thought no one could sing and dance like her.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez loved music, this was his true passion but he did not talk much about it,In his free time He liked to go to take a cappuccino in a bookstore in Mexico and he enjoyed to eat vanilla ice cream.




His dislikes was that snails behind the door, peacocks, plastic flowers and the frac dress because he thought they were very bad luck, additionaly he hated reading  his books for the second time, because he was afraid of something more was wrong, in the same way he didn´t like to read, if he didn´t like the book, he never finished it.

What is his house like?

The house of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer where he lived his childhood, is now a museum where they recreated the rooms that existed during this period. This museum house has 14 rooms with the characteristic of the Caribbean homes of the first half of the 20th century. The rooms of the house were named according to the same Gabo It is important to emphasize that the house where the nobel lived his childhood was demolished more than 40 years ago, reconstruction was done from several sources, this project allowed to recreate characteristics of the architecture of the region, the research sought to recover the Cultural scope and the distribution of the rooms according to the description of the nobel in his autobiography.It has the following spaces

·         Grandfather's Office

·         Visiting rooms

·         Silver workshop

·         The hospital room

·          Dining room

·         Reception room

·         Corridor of the begonias

·         Gabo's childhood room

·         the storage room

·         Kitchen and pantry

·         Yard and its Furniture

The restoration project, which is actually a metaphor of the original construction, was led by experts Juan Carlos Rivera, Ernesto Moure Erazo and Patricia Caicedo, and the museographic script was written by Alberto Abello, Patricia Iriarte and Ariel Castillo, with the Active participation of the poet Jiménez from the participation of the Aracataca culture. Jiménez was in charge, in large part, to put the "wheels" to the museum, as he calls it, so that the visitor finds in each room the relation of the place to the work of the writer. He also obtained the trunks, armchairs, piano and other decorative and furniture elements, in the style of those used at the beginning of the last century, to impress the atmosphere of Gabo's childhood. Today the persons in charge of the administration and maintenance of the museum is the University of Magdalena, under the National MuseumWhen Gabo was a child, I enjoy each of the spaces of his house, in the house museum you can enjoy each of the spaces, remember the times and the beautiful architecture that they recreated to resemble the house where Gabo lived his childhood