Random+Facts


 * FACTS: **
 * Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca.
 * Nicknamed "little Gabriel"
 * In 1940, when he was twelve, he was awarded a scholarship to a secondary school for gifted students.
 * García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
 * In 1999 García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
 * In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper. Since then he has mostly lived abroad in Paris, New York, Barcelona, and Mexico.