The Colombian writer and journalist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, placed the Spanish-American research at the forefront of the world with the publication in 1967 of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

 Gabriel García Márquez, the creator of classic and essential works such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Autumn of the Patriarch", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and "Love in the Times of cholera" is found in the Olympus of universal literature for its handling of words and its descriptive capacity, halfway between fantasy, reality, dream, myth and desire.

 This universal author, protagonist and maximum exponent of the world's interest in Spanish-American literature, contributed decisively to the screening of numerous writers of great quality but unknown until then in Latin America.

 From his birth the words marked him, since his name should have been Olegario guided by the tradition of the saints, but a difficult birth and an umbilical cord wound around his neck, that put him in serious trouble, at the end named Gabriel José: the first name in honor of the father and the second by the employer of the hometown, Aracataca.

 On this day, as on today, March 6, 1927, Gabriel José García Márquez was born. Who later became named by  Gabo for friends and admirers. He was the oldest of 11 brothers, but in reality he was the grandson of Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía, the maternal grandparents with whom he grew up from 5 to 9 years old, a childhood full of stories, fables and going to cinema and the circus.

 His grandmother, in particular, liked to "treat the extraordinary as something perfectly natural" and she became the source of Gabriel's knowledge of the magical, superstitious and supernatural view of the world.

 His career in journalism began while he was studying law at the National University of Colombia - from there he fell in love with writing and became very involved in national politics. Gabriel was a "committed leftist" throughout his life.

 Gabriel had always wanted to write a novel based on his grandparents' house where he grew up. After eighteen months of writing, this became "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It went on to sell more than 30 million copies around the world.

 With his newfound fame, Gabriel became a facilitator between the Colombian government and guerrilla rebels and became friends with powerful leaders like Fidel Castro. He called his relationship with Castro as an "intellectual friendship". 

 Gabriel García Márquez passed away aged 87 on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City after a relapse in lymphatic cancer that he had suffered since 1999. The whole world cried the disappearance of magician's of the words whose descriptions were pure poetry without having written only verses in his life .

 Gabo, the juggler of the narrative, was always clear what it would have been if he had not dedicated himself to writing, and so he told his brother on one moment: 

"Everything was in darkness, a man played piano in the shade, and few clients there were couples in love. That afternoon I knew that if I was not a writer, I would have liked to be the man who played the piano without anyone seeing his face, only for the lovers to love each other more."

Courtesy of El País

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