Writers’ Residences: Literature Lives Here
| June 9, 2017
11. Gabriel García Márquez – Aracataca, Colombia
Márquez was a Colombian novelist and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He popularized the literary style described as magic realism – when a writer mixes the real and surreal, or the incredible and ordinary, in their prose.
He wanted to write about where he grew up, so he went back to his grandfather’s house, in Aracataca. After 18 months smoking 60 cigarettes a day, he finished 100 Years of Solitude. He nearly went bankrupt and only had money to send half of the manuscript to his publisher.
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