by Gabriel García Márquez · NORMA · tapa blanda · ISBN 7706894224562
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«Vivir para contarla» is the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez, published by Norma in paperback, in Spanish.
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs in this autobiography his early years, from childhood in Aracataca to his beginnings as a writer and journalist. Through family memories and decisive characters, he explains how his narrative vocation and his view of Latin America were formed, a process that helps understand the roots of his literary universe.
Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Vivir para contarla was published in 2013.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, 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 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 Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
