Gabriel García Márquez — Age, Birthday & Biography
Born: 6 March 1927 · Died: 17 April 2014 · Age at death: 87
How old was Gabriel García Márquez when he died?
Gabriel García Márquez died aged 87. He was born on 6 March 1927 and died on 17 April 2014.
Colombian Nobel laureate who popularised magical realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Did you know?He was a close personal friend of Fidel Castro, a relationship that began after they met at a hotel in Havana.
Quick facts
Date of birth6 March 1927
Date of death17 April 2014
Age at death87
Cause of deathPneumonia, lymphoma
NationalityColombian
BirthplaceAracataca, Colombia
Occupationnovelist, short story writer, journalist
Editor's Take:
García Márquez showed the world that the extraordinary could sit naturally alongside everyday life. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, a girl floats up to heaven while hanging out washing, and the characters barely seem surprised. That style, known as magical realism, drew on the stories told by his grandparents in the small Colombian town of Aracataca. The novel became one of the best-selling books ever written in Spanish and helped spark a boom in Latin American literature. He began as a journalist and never lost his eye for a good story, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Key Milestones
1955: Publishes his first novel, Leaf Storm
1967: Publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude
1982: Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
1985: Publishes Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel José García Márquez (Latin American Spanish:; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967 (Gregory Rabassa translation)
Gabriel García Márquez's birthday is March 6. He was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia.
How old was Gabriel García Márquez when he died?
Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014, aged 87.
Who shares a birthday with Gabriel García Márquez?
Famous people who share Gabriel García Márquez's March 6 birthday include Michelangelo, Valentina Tereshkova, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shaquille O'Neal.
