Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

writer, actor, additional crew

Gabriel García Márquez was born on Mar 06, 1927 in Colombia. Gabriel García Márquez's big-screen debut came with The Golden Cockerel directed by Roberto Gavaldón in 1964. Gabriel García Márquez is known for Time to Die directed by Arturo Ripstein, Marga López stars as Mariana Sampedro and Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Juan Sayago. The most recent award Gabriel García Márquez achieved is Nobel Prize. The upcoming new movie Gabriel García Márquez plays is The Insomnia Plague which will be released on Jun 11, 2020.

Major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Studied law and journalism in Bogotá and Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, was a foreign correspondent in Europe during the late 1950s, Cuba and N.Y. early 1960s, and a screenwriter, journalist and publicist in Mexico City during the 1960s. During the 1980s he moved to Mexico when restrictions where imposed on his continued traveling due to his left-view political views.

  • Birthday

    Mar 06, 1927
  • Place of Birth

    Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

Known For

Awards

5 wins & 0 nominations

Nobel Prize
1982
"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a ... More
Winner - Nobel Prize in Literature
Ariel Awards, Mexico
1980
Best Screenplay (Mejor Guión Cinematográfico)
Winner - Silver Ariel
El año de la peste (1979)
1975
Best Screenplay (Mejor Guión Cinematográfico)
Winner - Silver Ariel
1975
Best Original Story (Mejor Argumento Original)
Winner - Silver Ariel
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