Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel Prize-Winning Author

by Don Nardo

Overview

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot," states this world-recognized novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Readers will learn that García Márquez found meaning in his life, by celebrating his culture through his work. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420500202
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2007
Series:	Twentieth Century's Most Influential Hispanics Series
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword 4

Introduction A Literary Earthquake 6

Chapter 1 Ghosts of Childhood 11

Chapter 2 Finding His Way 25

Chapter 3 World Traveler 39

Chapter 4 Breakthrough and Fame 52

Chapter 5 Political Activist 65

Chapter 6 Literary Giant 77

Notes 91

Important Dates 95

For More Information 97

Index 99

Picture Credits 103

About the Author 104

Editorial Reviews

Review: Gabriel García Márquez "This series aimed a middle and high school students features notable Hispanic figures who have made an important social, political, or cultural contribution in the past century."—Doug's Student Reference Room, August 2008

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