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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)