Gabriel García Márquez 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.

La hojarasca. Bogotá: Ed. S. L. B., 1955.

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Medellín: Auguirre Ed., 1961.

La mala hora. Madrid: Talleres de Gráficas "Luis Pérez", 1962 (ed. desautorizada por el autor); 2. ed.: Mexico: Ed. Era, 1966.

Los funerales de la Mamá Grande. Xalapa 1962.

Cien anos de soledad. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1967.

Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo. 1969.

Relato de un náufrago. Barcelona: Tusquets Ed., 1970.

He has been described as the master of "magic realism" in his novels. He said: "The tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable, into something plausible, credible - those I learned from journalism."

Todos los cuentos. Barcelona: Ed. Bruguera, 1975.

Big Mama's Funeral. (Los funerales de la Mamá Grande.1962.) (Published with: No One Writes to the Colonel. See above.)

El general en su laberinto. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1989.

In 1948 Márquez began to write for the Liberal newspaper El Universal. In 1954 he became the European correspondent of El Espector and began writing novels. When his newspaper was suppressed in 1955 he was stranded for a year in Paris with little money. He made use of his European exile by travelling, particularly in Eastern Europe.

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