The Handsomest Drowned Man in

the World

Born:◦ March 6, 1927

Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

Parents:◦ Gabriel Eligio García and

Luisa Santiaga Márquez Occupation:

◦ novelist, short-story writer, and journalist

Biography

Wife:◦ Mercedes Barcha

Wedding:◦ 1958

Children:◦ Rodrigo García◦ Gonzalo García

Marriage and family

One Hundred Years of Solitude

◦ This novel was widely popular and led to García Márquez's Nobel Prize as well as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972.

Achievements

Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)

Famous Works◦ Love in the Time of

Cholera (1985)◦ Leaf Storm (1955)◦ The Handsomest

Drowned Man in the World (1968)

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