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Gabriel García Márquez
Early Life
Gabriel García Márquez, novelist, journalist and screenwriter, was born on the 6th of March, in 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia. His father, Gabriel Eligio García moved with his wife Luisa Santiaga to Barranquilla, leaving him under the care of his maternal grandparents.
His grandparents Doña Tranquilina and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo have strongly impacted his early growth as a boy.
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His grandfather, a colonel retired from the army, was a highly respected figure among the Columbian liberals. He taught his grandson lifelong lessons, which Gabriel later integrated into his works. His grandmother also played a significant role in his early development by narrating ghost stories in a unique way that even nonsense statements appeared to be unquestionable truths.
Since they raised him, his parents remained strangers to him for the first few years of his life.
Education
After Gabriel’s grandfather died, he moved to Barranquilla, where he started his formal e