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Gabriel Garca Mrquez

Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Born 6 March 1927Died 17 April 2014Colombiannovelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known popularly asGaboNobel Prize for Literature in 1982

Major worksThe Story of a Shipwrecked SailorOne Hundred Years of Solitude(1967)Love in the Time of Cholera(1985)Chronicle of a Death Foretold(1981)

Autobiography Living to Tell the Tale(2002)

A Shipwrecked sailor Historical BackgroundThe story of a shipwrecked sailor is a work ofNon-fiction by Colombian writer Gabriel GarciaMarquez. It was originally published as a fourteenconsecutive day series in El Espectadornewspaper in 1955.It was later published as a book in 1970,and then translated into English by Randolph Hogan in 1986.The story is written in the first-person from the perspective of a sailor, the twenty year-old Luis Alejandro Velasco and was,In fact, signed by velasco as author when it was first Published as a book, was Garcia Marquezs name publicly associated with the story. A shipwrecked sailor Summary

Seaman Luis Alejandro Velasco of the destroyer Caldas is eager to return to Colombia after a long stay in the United States. when the ship sets sail, however, it is overloaded-in part withcontraband. When the vessel is caught in the heavy waves of the Caribbean, eight of the creware washed overboard, together with much of the cargo. After four days the search ends, with the missing declared dead. However, Velasco found a raft and remained in the open sea without food or hope. After drifting in the sea currents for ten days , he arrives with his raft on a coast that he later discovers to be Colombia. He is received first with affection and later with military honours and a lot of money from publicity agencies. A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

A Shipwrecked Sailor