Gabriel Garca MrquezGabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio Garca and Luisa Santiaga Mrquez Iguarn.

BeginningsConsidered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.Garca Mrquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories.

His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success.He is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), as well as many others.

El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba.

No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a novella written by Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

The novel, written between 19561957 and first published in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days' War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under martial law. The novel is set during the years of "La Violencia" in Colombia, when martial law and censorship prevail.In his memoir Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale, 2002), Garca Mrquez explained that the novel was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised. However, there is also speculation that Mrquez took inspiration from his experience of unemployment in 1956 after the newspaper he had been working for shut down. The daily lives he witnessed during this time are said to be one of his inspirations for this novel.Death

Garca Mrquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City.The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: "One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time". The former Colombian president lvaro Uribe Vlez said: "Master Garca Mrquez, thanks forever, millions of people in the planet fell in love with our nation fascinated with your lines". At the time of his death, he had a wife and two sons.