INNOCENT ERENDIRA

Gabriel GarcÍa Marquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.