ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス

ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス　/　がぶりえる・がるしあ＝まるけす

American novelist

March 6, 1927 – April 17, 2014　・　Aracataca, Colombia

novelist
short story writer
journalist

My Take

Gabriel García Márquez — Gabo, as Latin America called him — was simply one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived, and I don't think that's hyperbole. Born in the coastal Colombian town of Aracataca and raised partly by his grandparents on a diet of folklore and local legend, he somehow distilled all of that into One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel that reads like a dream you can't shake for weeks. His Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 felt less like an honor and more like the world finally catching up to what readers already knew. What gets me is how he blended the fantastical with the deeply human — floods of yellow butterflies, a woman ascending to heaven mid-laundry — and made it feel utterly matter-of-fact. He passed in April 2014, and the silence he left behind is enormous.

Overview

Gabriel José García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America.

1. Profile

Name (English): ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス
Name (Japanese): ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス
Reading: がぶりえる・がるしあ＝まるけす
Born: March 6, 1927 – April 17, 2014
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Rabbit
Origin: Aracataca, Colombia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: novelist / short story writer / journalist / playwright / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: National University of Colombia

Awards & achievements

1971 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
1972 Rómulo Gallegos Prize
1980 Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
1981 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
Simón Bolívar award
1982 Order of the Aztec Eagle
1993 Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	One Hundred Years of Solitude	—
Notable work	The Autumn of the Patriarch	—
Notable work	Love in the Time of Cholera	—
Notable work	Chronicle of a Death Foretold	—
Notable work	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor	—
Notable work	No One Writes to the Colonel	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%B9