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Gabriel García Márquez Biography
Author and journalist
Born Gabriel José García Márquez, March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia; son of Gabriel Eligio Garcia (a telegraph operator) and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguaran; married Mercedes Barcha Pardo, 1958; children: two sons.
Education: Attended Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1947-48; attended Universidad de Cartagena, 1948-49.
Addresses: Home —P.O. Box 20736, Mexico City D.F., Mexico.
Career
Began career as a journalist, 1947; reporter for Universal, Cartegena, Colombia, late 1940s, El heraldo , Baranquilla, Colombia, 1950-52, and El espectador , Bogota, Colombia, until 1955; freelance journalist in Paris, London, and Caracas, Venezuela, 1956-57; worked for Momento magazine, Caracas, 1957-59; helped form Prensa Latina news agency, Bogota, 1959, and worked as its correspondent in Havana, Cuba, and New York City, 1961; writer, 1965—; Fundacion Hab