![]() ![]() Garcia Márquez fled the ensuing violence to start a career as a journalist and investigative reporter in the Caribbean, a position he would never abandon.Īs the dictatorship’s noose became tighter, he left the country on assignment to Europe, where he was safe. The killing of Colombia’s president Jorge Eliecer Gaitan ended a brief streak of success. Garcia Márquez received his education at a Jesuit university before enrolling in the National University of Bogotá’s law program in 1946. ![]() García Márquez’s maternal grandparents abandoned him, leaving him to grow up in a huge, dilapidated home. When García Márquez was 8 years old, his family moved away so that his father could find employment. He was the oldest of 12 children his father worked as an itinerant pharmacist, telegraph operator, and postal clerk. Gabriel García Márquez, who was born in 1927 in the small Colombian community of Aracataca, close to the Caribbean coast, and went to school inland in a Bogotá suburb, gave up his pre-law studies to work as a journalist in the cities of Cartagena, Barranquilla (where he wrote a column), and Bogotá (writing movie reviews). ![]()
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