| HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad - in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico - in a more or less compulsory exile. Besides his large output of fiction he has written screenplays and has continued to work as a journalist. Bibliography Cien anos de soledad. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1967. Chile, el golpe y los gringos. 1974. Cuando era feliz e indocumentado. Barcelona: Plaza y Janes, 1975. El otono del patriarca. Barcelona: Plaza y Janes, 1975. Todos los cuentos. Barcelona: Ed. Bruguera, 1975. | |
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