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Gabriel García Márquez

In over 18 months of constant writing, made possible through generous donations of food and financial help from most everyone in his small Columbian town, Gabriel García Márquez wrote his groundbreaking novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1968. Over 36 million copies have been sold worldwide with translations into over two-dozen languages. He was awarded the1982 Nobel Prize in Literature and 3 other international prizes for his works.  Widely credited with introducing the global public to magical realism, he has secured both significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success.

His novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, is now a 2007 motion picture directed by Mike Newell, which tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) and Doctor Juvenal Urbino.  (Benjamin Bratt) The movie spans 50 years, from 1880 to 1930.

On his own initiative, García Márquez convinced Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shakira, who hails from the nearby city of Barranquilla, Columbia, to provide two songs for the film. It will be the first time that a Garcia Márquez novel has been made into a movie by a Hollywood studio. The film is due to be released in the USA on November 16th, 2007.

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  (1927- )

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