Gabriel garcía márquez death

In addition, we discuss his characteristics, works and awards. His oeuvre is encompassed within the so-called "Latin American Boom" , as the wave of Latin American writers who emerged in the s promoted by Spanish literary agent Carmen Balcells became known in Spain and worldwide. His well-known friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro sparked controversy both within and outside the literary world.

During his early childhood, his upbringing was in charge of his grandparents , until he later moved with his parents to Sucre, Barranquilla, in In March , he married Mercedes Barcha , daughter of the apothecary of his hometown Barranquilla. They had two sons: Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He never finished his higher education. In , he settled down in New York with his wife and first son to work as a correspondent for the Latin press.

However, pressures and threats from Cuban dissidents in the United States and the CIA forced him to move to Mexico City, where he spent most of his life. His ties with Fidel Castro and his political stances earned him the classification of "subversive" by the US government.

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There, he became acquainted with the works of the major Anglo-Saxon realist writers: Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf , James Joyce, and particularly William Faulkner , who had a profound influence on his work. He was an admirer of Ancient Greek tragedy , such as those by Sophocles. He also often acknowledged the influence that the Colombian iconoclastic poetic movement "Piedra y cielo" Stone and sky had on him.

Gabo sought out to reconcile the childhood stories told by his grandmother with his political and Latin Americanist concerns , taking up the concept of the "marvelous real" held by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. His style garnered both widespread support and enormous artistic success, as well as accusations of exoticism. Among his best-known works are:.