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This brief page is a good place to begin research on Márquez. It includes biographical information and offers links to the Nobel Prize in Literature page and the Library of Congress Web site, among others.

Macondo
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/index.html

This comprehensive, well-organized Web site is designed and updated by a fan of Márquez and includes biographical information on the author; a timeline of personal and political events that have affected the author's life; information about Márquez's involvement in film and television; a transcription of Márquez's 1982 Nobel Prize Lecture; a comprehensive bibliography and list of criticism; and photographs of the author.

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html

The official Web site of the Nobel Foundation features Internet links to biographical information on Márquez, a selected bibliography, and information on other Nobel Prize Laureates. You can check this site for information on any Nobel Prize, including literature, physics, chemistry, and peace.

BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) was born in the remote small town of Aracataca in Magdalena province, near the Caribbean seacoast of Colombia. The oldest of twelve children of a poverty-stricken telegraph operator and his wife, he was raised by his maternal grandparents. When he was eight years old, he was sent to school near Bogota, and after his graduation in 1946 he studied law.

A writer from childhood, García Márquez published his first book, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, in 1955. He spent the next few years in Paris, where he wrote two short novels. After the Cuban Revolution, he returned to Central America and worked as a journalist and screenwriter. His great comic masterpiece, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), was written while he lived in Mexico City. The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), a novel about the life of a Latin American dictator, and the best-seller Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) are more recent works. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for literature.

García Márquez mingles realistic and fantastic details in all his fiction. He has said that the origin of his stories is always an image, "not an idea or a concept. The image grows in my head until the whole story takes shape as it might in real life."