Gabriel José de la Concordia is a Colombian writer-prose writer, journalist, publisher and politician. Laureate of the Neustadt literary prize (1972) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1982). Representative of the literary trend of "magical realism." He was born in the Colombian town of Arakataka (department of Magdalena) in the family of Gabriel Eligio García and Louisa Santiaga Marquez Iguarán [Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán] [9]. Soon after the birth of Gabriel, his father became a pharmacist. In January 1929, his parents moved to Sucre, but the boy remained in Arakatak, where he was raised by his grandmother and maternal grandfather Trankilina Iguarán Cotes and Colonel Nicolas Ricardo Márquez Mejía ) [10] [11]. It was grandfather and grandmother, each of whom was an excellent narrator, who introduced the future writer to folk legends and linguistic features, which later became an important element of his work [12]. When Garcia Marquez was nine years old, his grandfather died, and Gabriel moved to his parents in Sucre, where his father owned a pharmacy [11] [13].In 1940, at the age of 13, Gabriel received a scholarship and began studying at the Jesuit College of Sipakira, 30 km north of Bogota. In 1946, at the insistence of his parents, he entered the National University of Bogota at the Faculty of Law. Then he met his future wife, Mercedes Barcha Pardo, the daughter of an apothecary.Interrupting his studies early in 1950, García Márquez decided to devote himself to journalism and literature. The greatest influence on him had such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka.