GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Personal information of Gabriel garcía marquéz

This video is about the life and personal information of an important Colombian writer called GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Physical and emotional description 

The physical appearance is:white hair,clear forehead and he looks a little bald.
He has very tick eyebrows, a very full white mustache,nose curved,wide smile,and full teeth.

His daily routine 

This were the options that Gabriel perfomed most in his life and that made him happy 

HIS  HOUSE 

the nobel lived his first 8 years of life with his maternal grandparents in Aracataca That municipality of Magdalena, located 90 kilometers south of Santa Marta,

 there is currently one museum in honor of him.

The house museum has fourteen atmospheres characteristic of the Caribbean dwellings of the first half of the 20th century. The names of each space of the house were agreed with the same Gabo. Some of the places inside are the office of Colonel Nicolás Márquez, where the grandfather of the Nobel Prize was responsible for business; the visiting room, the silverware workshop, the hospital room, the dining room, the reception room, the corridor of the begonias, the grandparents' room, the one of the boy 'Gabo', that of Sara Emilia, daughter of the uncle Juan; the laundry room, the kitchen and pantry, the room for the guajiros and the patio.

as we can see the house had spaces with many plants, and 

most of the furniture was made of wood, 

gas lamps, and very modest for that time, 

the house was made of wood.

As you can see are typical old houses of the region

Gabriel Garcia lived in Bogota while studying law After the so-called "Bogotazo" in 1948, 
the university closed indefinitely and his pension was set on fire.

García Márquez moved to the University of Cartagena and began working as a reporter

 for El Universal. In 1950, he desisted from becoming a lawyer to focus on journalism and

 moved back to Barranquilla  to work as a columnist and reporter in the newspaper El Heraldo.

and in 1961 he moved to New York, where he worked as a correspondent for Prensa Latina.

 After receiving threats and criticism from the CIA and the Cuban dissidents, who did not share the content of their reports,

 he decided to move to Mexico and settled in the capital. Although García Márquez 

owned residences in Paris, Bogotá and Cartagena de Indias, 

he lived most of the time in his home in Mexico City, where he settled in the early 1960s 

and where he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude in the Number 19 from La Palma street

 in the San Ángel neighborhood

 

This is the house that is located in Cartagena, however, the house is not open to the public. It also does not have any plaque or identification from the outside. The only way to recognize it or to enter is with a guided tour. The house has a beautiful facade and architecture and the place next door has a mural of its portrait.

Why Gabriel Garcia is the the most influential colombian the last fifty years?

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ is one of the main characters in Colombian life that has crossed borders and has managed to be recognized worldwide, he was a journalist and writer, his main work Cien años de soledad, with which he achieved a Nobel Prize in Literature.