Curiosidades

The video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" is based on his short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982).

Worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Geneva, Poland, Hungary, Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, India and New York City.

His most successful novels include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (1985), which was made into the movie O Amor nos Tempos do Cólera (2007).

His book Love in the Time of Cholera is featured as a major prop in Escrito nas Estrelas (2001).

Good friends with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

After learning that he suffered from lymphatic cancer in 1999, he wrote his autobiography "Vivir para contarla" ("Living to Tell the Tale", 2002).

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982

Born to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez, he was raised by his grandparents Nicolas Ricardo Márquez, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, and Tranquilinia Iguarán Cotes.

Pictured on a 55c Spanish commemorative postage stamp, issued 22 April 2015.

His widow and muse, born Mercedes Barcha Pardo, 6 November 1932, in Magangué, Colombia, died in Mexico City, 15 August 2020.

Pictured on a 200p Colombian commemorative postage stamp issued 14 July 2015.