Hundred Years of Solitude
March 6, 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez Born On This Day
Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day in 1928 in the small Columbian town of Aracataca, which would be his inspiration for the mythical "Macondo" the central village in Márquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.
As a child, García Márquez's grandmother told him fantastical tales that would set the stage for his trademark literary style of magical realism. He began his writing career as a reporter and foreign correspondent for El Universal in Cartagena. García Márquez would publish Leaf Storm and Other Stories, his first collection of short stories in 1955.
García Márquez moved to Mexico City during the 1960's and in 1967 published his crowning opus - One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because of his unique style of writing, García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his body of work. In 1985 he would publish El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera, based on his parent's courtship, which was made into the Golden Globe nominated film and better known by its English title - Love in the Time of Cholera.
Quote for ToDay:
"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward." - Patricia Sampson
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