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Gabriel García Márquez – Biography Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome* on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist. Bibliography La hojarasca. Bogotá: Ed. S. L. B., 1955. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Medellín: Auguirre Ed., 1961. La mala hora. Madrid: Talleres de Gráficas "Luis Pérez", 1962 (ed. desautorizada por el autor); 2. ed.: Mexico: Ed. Era, 1966. Los funerales de la Mamá Grande. Xalapa 1962. Cien anos de soledad. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1967. Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo. 1969. Relato de un náufrago. Barcelona: Tusquets Ed., 1970. La increíble