Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian-born writer of amazing skills and thought by many to be one of the world’s greatest living authors. An actual resident of Mexico City, he is considered one of the pioneers of the “Latin American Boom.” After the publication of One hundred years of Solitude in 1967; Gabriel, a previously struggling novelist became a worldwide success. To read his work is like entering in an enchanted world full of beauty. This world of Gabo’s fiction is known as magical realism where the strange and the unusual can become comfortably familiar and then one can question reality. After a lot of successful novels, his standing in contemporary world literature was confirmed when he received the Nobel Prize in 1982. With all the difficulties Gabriel Garcia Marquez had to face in his life, he struggled to accomplish what he really wanted with hard work and dedication in order to become one of the greatest writer of all times.Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928; in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of ghosts. But in order to get a better grasp on Garcia Marquez’s life, it helps to understand something first about both the history of Colombia and the unusual background of his family. ColombiaColombia won its independence from Spain in 1810, technically making it one of Latin America's oldest democracies, but the sad fact is that this "democracy" has rarely known peace and justice. In 1849, the country was sufficiently advanced enough to concretize their squabbling in the form of two political parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, who exist to this day. These two parties form the political framework for much of Garcia Marquez's fiction, and understanding their true natures is both a key to his writing and, unfortunately, an important insight to Latin American poli...
