I'm a Gabo lover (:

The person that I admire is Gabriel García Márquez.  He was a colombian novelist, writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo in Latin America. Gabriel was born in Aracataca, Colombia.  Gabriel began his career as a journalist while studying law at the National University of Colombia. But, in his country there were many riots and the university where he studied was closed. He had to move to the University of Cartagena and began working as a reporter in ‘The Universal’. In 1958, he married with Mercedes Barcha. They had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

When he started to work as a journalist, he wrote many non-fiction works and short stories. The novel ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka was one of his biggest inspirations in writing. He has been considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Gabriel literature’s is related to the genre called magical realism of the 70s'. In this genre, he uses magical elements and situations of ordinary life and realistic. His best known novel was One Hundred Years of Solitude written in 1967. Also the other novels as “The Autumn of the Patriarch” and “Love in Cholera Times”. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca, and most of them explore the concept of loneliness. In 2014, García Márquez died on April 17.

Gabo is an inspiration for me because he was one of the most relevant journalist and novelist of recent times. In his literature you can discover the magic in little things. He never finished his studies but his talent was innate.  It’s wonderful.