Gabriel García Márquez—Biography Gabriel García Márquez established himself as one of Latin America’s most renowned authors by developing into a master of Magical Realism through the force of his literary works. A leading exponent of the Latin American “School of Magic Realism”, he created two of the greatest examples of the genre with his best-known works, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His inspirations as a literary phenomenon originate from his family ties, literary exposure, devote passion for journalism, and distinct political affiliations. Many of his life experiences, including his parents’ romance, living with his grandparents, and journalistic pathways, led him to prosper in literature. With each of his experiences, his own literary library grew and its fabrication magnified, allowing him to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature. …show more content…
Because his mother’s father was a retired colonel with strong left leaning political views and his father was a medical school drop out with a very conservative stance, initially there was a poor prospect of marriage for his parents. Garcia’s father’s persistence eventually wore down the colonel’s objections and the marriage was allowed. Marquez would use the inspiration of his parents’ romance as the basis for El Amor en los Tiempos de Colera or Love in the Time of Cholera. For the first eight years of his life, he lived with his maternal grandparents who played an instrumental role in emerging his unique imagination and complex ideas. His grandmother, Tranquilina Iguaran Cotes, was an avid storyteller; she gave Marquez a deep reservoir of folkloric knowledge about omens, premonitions, dead ancestors and ghosts. His grandfather, Ricardo Marquez Mejia, had fought in at least two Colombian civil conflicts; his stories of battle and conflict captured Gabriel’s