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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Research Paper

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927. He was one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 for his book 100 years of solitude which he published in 1967. He was born in Aracataca, Colombia. After the War of a Thousand days, he moved to a river side where he received better average education and wrote stories about Aracataca. At the time, he was studying law, but became a journalist. In the 1950s, he went to Paris as a correspondent and read lots of American literature. After that, he worked in Bogota, Colombia and then New York City. Later, he moved to Mexico where he wrote the book that made him famous. From 1967 to 1975, he lived in Spain, while still having a house in Mexico City.

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