BIOGRAPHY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern

Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal

grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the

century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off

for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome* on an assignment for his newspaper,

and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a

more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and

has continued to work as a journalist.