story writer, journalist, critic, and screenwriter, has

had international recognition for many years. He is

included among the group of South American

writers who rose to prominence during the 1960s, a

time often referred to as the "boom" of Latin

American Literature. In his short stories and

novels, Leaf Storm, One Hundred Years of

Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and The

Autumn of the Patriarch, he utilizes his

background, and personal experiences, which

Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca,

Colombia, on March 6, 1928. He lived with his

grandparents for the first eight years of his life. The

storytelling of his grandmother and the myths and

superstitions of the townspeople all played major

roles in shaping his imagination. He enrolled in the

University of Bogota in 1947 to study law, but

when it was shut down in 1948 he transferred to the

For these reasons the critics praise him and he remains popular.

what some call "magical" ( Gabriel 3 19 ). His

his grandparents' house as a dwelling place of the

El Heraldo. He then began to write short stories

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez." Encyclopedia of World

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