By: Eddie Edwards

1. Gabriel García Márquez By: Eddie Edwards

2. Gabriel GarcíaMárquez

3. The Beginning of his Life • Born on March 6th, 1928 in Aracataca, which is a small town in Northern Colombia. • Was raised in his grandparent’s house, which was said to be filled with countless aunts and rumors of ghost. • His grandfather was a colonel and a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

4. Aracataca, Colombia

5. Childhood • Nicknamed Gabito which means "little Gabriel“, grew up as a quiet and shy boy with his grandparents. • His grandfather died when he was 8 years old and his mother was increasing with her blindness • He later went to Sucre, where his father worked as a pharmacist. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

6. Sucre, Bolivia

7. Childhood (cont.) • In 1940, he was awarded a scholarship to a secondary school for gifted students ran by Jesuits. • He attended the LiceoNacional school in Zipaquirá, about 30 miles away from Bogotá. • The journey took him a week to get from Zipaquirá to Bogotá. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

8. Zipaguirá, Colombia

9. Into his Teens • In 1946, the eighteen year old wished to enroll in the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá not just as a journalist, but also to be a law student. • While with his parents, he was introduced to a 13 year old girl named Mercedes BarchaPardo, who was a Egyptian descendant. • Before he went off to finish school, he proposed to her, but she held it off until after. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

10. Bogatá, Colombia

11. Into his Teens (cont.) • After not going to school and skipping classes, he began to write fiction books, and then came his first story published in 1946 called “ The Third Resignation”. • Over the next few years, he had written over ten stories for the newspaper in Bogotá. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

12. Book Written by Gabriel GarcíaMárquez

13. Into his Teens (cont.) • Attended Jesuit college and began to read law. • Genéve was the first town he was sent to. • In 1954, he was send to Rome for an assignment on his newspaper for journalism. • http://nobelprize.org/

14. Jesuit College

15. In His Later Years • GarcíaMárquez travelled through Geneva, Rome, Poland and Hungary, finally settling in Paris where he found that he was out of a job because the Pinilla government had shut down the presses of El Espectador. • Because of this occurance, he had written a book to be called and later become “In Evil Hour” • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_biography.html

16. Gabriel GarcíaMárquez

17. In His Later Years (cont.) • He was awarded the Nobel Prize award for literature in 1982 for his hard work and dedication in writing his books. • He had written a lot of famous books such as the Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love and Other Demons. • In 1999, he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. • http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_timeline.html

18. Love and Other Demons