Intimate photographs into the life of the Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Record ID: 991112

  • Title: Intimate photographs into the life of the Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Date: 26th January 2018
  • Summary: PHOTOGRAPH OF GARCIA MARQUEZ HOLDING YELLOW ROSES
  • Embargoed: 9th February 2018 18:31
  • Keywords: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Casa Colombia photographs exhibit expo
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Books,Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News
  • Reuters ID: LVA0047ZR1CG3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The life and work of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is on display in Mexico City’s Casa Colombia Gallery where a photographic exhibit entitled "The Realism of the Magical" brings visitors a unique look at the intimate life of the 1982 Nobel Prize winner.
    The exhibit seeks to bring the public a glimpse of the famous Gabo, as he was known to friends, as he was seen by Colombian photojournalists.
    Garcia Marquez, who died in 2014 at the age of 87, is best known for 'One Hundred Years of Solitude," the 1967 novel that made him famous and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    He was one of the prime exponents of magical realism, a literary genre he described as embodying "myth, magic and other extraordinary phenomena."
    Educated as a lawyer, he worked as a journalist and was a vocal supporter of the left-wing Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and was a close friend of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro. Garcia Marquez's interest in journalism never diminished, even as he became internationally acclaimed for his fiction.
    He spent time in Spain with his wife and two sons, before settling more permanently in Mexico, which he loved.
    The Realism of the Magical is on display until February 25th. The entrance is free.
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