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Read for the first time The metamorphosis of Kafka and fascinated says: "Shit, this is how my grandmother spoke." The next day, he writes his first story: "The Third Resignation", which appears in the newspaper El Espectador on September 13. Six weeks later, they publish, there too, another story of his: "Eva is inside her cat."

1949
In December, he decides to leave Cartagena. Your new destination is Barranquilla. Leave law studies forever. In “La Arenosa” he befriends the Barranquilla Group, made up of young intellectuals: Alfonso Fuenmayor, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Alejandro Obregón and Germán Vargas, among others. He begins to write La litter, his first look at a family saga based in Macondo.

1951
Fleeing the Violence that began in 1948, Gabo's family settles in Cartagena and he decides to live with her. He continues writing for El Heraldo and then gets a job again at El Universal. His father wants him to study again, but he tells him that he is going to devote himself to literature. Then Gabriel Eligio releases the phrase: "you will eat paper!"

1954
Encouraged by Mutis, he travels to Bogotá in January in search of work. A few days later he is hired as a reporter at El Espectador.
In those days, his old friends from Barranquilla begin to meet in a place called "La Cueva", in that city. Gabo visits them on vacation.

1955
He publishes in El Espectador the testimonies of Luis Alejandro Velasco, the only survivor of a shipwreck (fifteen years later, the book Story of a Shipwreck would come out of them). And finally La litter, with the seal of Sipa Editions, is on the streets.

1956
In January, Rojas Pinilla closes El Espectador and Gabo is left without pay in Paris. Start writing what will be the bad hour; He quickly abandons the project to devote himself to the creation of The Colonel has no one to write to him, the story of an old man whose life is going, waiting for his pension to be paid. That year he meets the Spanish actress María Concepción Quintana (Tachia), with whom he lives an affair.

1959
On January 1, the Revolution triumphs in Cuba and 17 days later, the new government invites Gabo to cover the issue. This is how his close relationship with that country was born.
In April, Prensa Latina, a news agency that supports the Cuban Revolution, appoints Gabriel García Márquez and Plinio Apuleyo as directors of its headquarters in Bogotá.
Rodrigo, his first son, is born on August 24. He is baptized by Bogota priest Camilo Torres Restrepo, later known as ‘the guerrilla priest’.

1961
Alberto Aguirre publishes a reissue of The Colonel has no one to write to him. In January, he began his work at the New York headquarters of Prensa Latina. He only stays for five months, because he and his family can't stand the pressure of anti-Castroism. At the end of June, they take a train to Mexico. They are received by the Colombian Álvaro Mutis, who then gives him a copy of Pedro Páramo and another from El llano en llamas, works by Juan Rulfo, telling him: "read them, so that he may learn".

1962
On April 16, La mala hora (originally titled This Shit Town) gets the Esso award. The novel tells the story of a town that lives a tense peace, about to end on account of pamphlets. That day Gonzalo, his second son, is born.
In April the stories that make up the funerals of the Big Mom are published.
Barcelona's Carmen Balcells, born in 1930, becomes her literary agent.

1965
Between June 7 and July 10, Arturo Ripstein rolls Time to Die, based on a script by García Márquez entitled El Charro.
On September 9, Gabo premieres the film In this town there are no thieves, in which Luis Buñuel, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Monsiváis, José Luis Cuevas and Leonora Carrington, among others, participate as actors.

1966
He works in One Hundred Years of Solitude until August. He has quit his job at the advertising agency. They are hard times for your economic life. After sending the manuscript to Editorial Sudamericana, of Buenos Aires, Mercedes tells him: "Now the only thing missing is that this novel is bad."

1967
On May 30, the Argentine South American publishing house publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude, the history of the Buendía family and its seven generations.

1967
On August 1, in Caracas, during the International Congress of Latin American Literature, he meets the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa. They become such friends that, months later, Gabo becomes the godfather of Gonzalo Gabriel, son of Vargas Llosa.
On August 16, during the presentation of One Hundred Years of Solitude in the theater of the Di Tella Institute, in Buenos Aires, Gabo knows the fame: all the public stands up when they see him arrive.

1970
In January, One Hundred Years of Solitude is chosen as the Best Foreign Novel published the previous year in France. On September 4, the Chilean people choose the socialist Salvador Allende by majority as their president

1972
García Márquez publishes the storybook The incredible and sad story of Candida Eréndira and his heartless grandmother.
One hundred years of solitude obtains the Romulo Gallegos prize.

1974
In February, the first issue of the journal Alternativa, of left-wing journalism, appears in Colombia. Among the partners are Enrique Santos Calderón, Daniel Samper Pizano, Antonio Caballero Holguín and Gabriel García Márquez

1975
In March, García Márquez publishes The Autumn of the Patriarch and in June, Complete Tales.
After interviewing Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos, Gabo befriends him

1977
Gabo gets the Cuban government to release Reinol González, an anti-Castro prisoner. For years it will mediate the release of other detainees.

1978
On December 20, Habeas, an institution that works for human rights in Latin America (on the continent there are many right-wing dictatorships in those days). Julio César Turbay Ayala becomes president of Colombia and establishes the controversial security statute, to "counter the insurgent forces."

1981
Publish Chronicle of a death foretold.

1982
On October 21, at 5:59 a.m., García Márquez receives a call from Pierre Schori, Swedish Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, announcing that he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
On December 10, in Stockholm, with a liquilique (in honor of his grandfather, Colonel Márquez), he receives the Nobel. Days before he gives the speech “The loneliness of Latin America”

1985
On December 5 publishes Love in the time of cholera, the story of an autumnal love, which only blooms 53 years after being born. On November 6, the M-19 takes the Palace of Justice, in Bogotá, and on 13, the town of Armero (Tolima) disappears after the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

1986
Gabo interviews film director Miguel Littín for more than 18 hours, who manages to enter Pinochet's Chile and shoot more than three thousand meters of film. In May he published the adventure of Miguel Littín clandestine in Chile.

1992
On January 1, the QAP news broadcasts begin. In addition to Gabo, among the partners are Enrique Santos Calderón, María Elvira Samper and María Isabel Rueda.
The architect Rogelio Salmona begins the construction of Gabo's house in Cartagena. In Exposevilla, Gabo launches Twelve Pilgrim Stories, a compilation of his stories set outside Latin America.

1998
In January, Pope John Paul II visits Cuba. Gabo accompanies Fidel in a good part of the official events.

1999
Arturo Ripstein directs the film adaptation of The Colonel has no one to write to him. In January, Gabo and a group of people buy the magazine Cambio.
That year he is diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer of a part of the immune system, called the lymphatic system.

2004
Launch the short novel Memory of my sad whores, which tells the story of an old man obsessed with a young prostitute. Gabo is inspired by Yasunari Kawabata's House of Sleeping Beauty.

2009
Gerald Martin, English critic, launches the biography Gabriel García Márquez. A life, the result of a 17-year job. When he meets her, Gabo comments: “don't worry. I will be what you say I am ”,“ more than an official biography, it is a tolerated biography ”,“ everyone must have an English biographer ”.

2014
On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Gabriel García Márquez dies in Mexico, leaving a renovating work for the Latin American literary tradition.