An artist I admire

 

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) was a Colombian novelist who won the novel prize for literature in 1960. He grew up in the town of Aracataca where he lived with his grandfather, he told him traditional stories of Latin America, which influenced his future work. He studied law and journalism at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and wrote for the newspaper "El Espectador". He supported and worked for the Cuban revolutionary government, for a short time. He moved to France and then to Spain, writing and meeting other important authors.

His work is relevant because recreates the mythological and magical point of view of the Latin-American folklore in his books and gives it a place in the universal literature. Some of his most important works are “One hundred years of solitude”, “Litter”, and “Chronicles of a death foretold” One of my favorite books is “One hundred years of solitude” and I've reread it a couple of times.