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"He who awaits much can expect little."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in the small town of Aracataca which lies in the banana zone in the tropical region of northern Colombia. He is a Colombian journalist, novelist, publisher and political activist, well regarded as one of the greatest writers in contemporary Spanish literature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrought as a reporter in some newspapers in Latin America and correspondent to others in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He has lived and spent most of his life in Mexico and Europe. He studied journalism and law at the National University in Bogotá and at the University of Cartagena. He began his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers.

The modern literature schools are discussing the impact of the Spanish language magical realism in the modern literal and art movements. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Romulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for his "One Hundred Years of Solitude. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. He considered worldwide as the greatest Latin American master of narrative.

His novels are published since 1962 and include: Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Of Love and Other Demons.

His short stories and collections include: Leaf Storm, Innocent Erendira, Leaf Storm, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Handsomest Drawn Man in the World, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, No One Writes to the Colonel, Strange Pilgrims, Big Mama's Funeral and For the Sake of a Country Within Reach of the Children.

His non-fictions include: Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin, News of a Kidnapping, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Living to Tell the Tale.