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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez - Mind Map by Taylor Robertson & Ashton Pulis -…
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez - Mind Map by Taylor Robertson & Ashton Pulis
Bio
Born: March 1927 – Died: 17 April 2014
Known As: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist
Since García Márquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life,[14] his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly.
García Márquez's grandmother, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes, played an influential role in his upbringing. He was inspired by the way she "treated the extraordinary as something perfectly natural."
Writing Styles
Themes
Important Works
Best known for novels such as novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967.
Some of his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude
His novels were filled with miraculous and enchanting events and characters; love and madness; wars, politics, dreams and death.
Most known most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations.
He also combines magic realism with fantasy, using events and experiences from his past to strengthen his writing
Culture
Gabriel García Márquez is the most recognized Hispanic writer in the world and a big influence on the Colombian culture. In 1982 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is currently considered one of the great masters of universal literature.
Time Period
Started publishing literary works as early as the 1950s through the late 1980s
Throughout the 50s, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."
Education
He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism.
García Márquez spent his first years of high school, from 1940, in the Colegio jesuita San José (today Instituto San José), where he published his first poems in the school magazine Juventud.
After his graduation in 1947, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá to study law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, but spent most of his spare time reading fiction.
Career
As a 13-year-old, he came to Bogotá to study in a secondary school. Later he began to study law, but abandoned these studies to work as a journalist and writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris, New York and elsewhere.
Noteable Awards: Neustadt International Prize for Literature & 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature 1982