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1927 – 2014 · Aracataca
Gabriel García Márquez
How a boy raised on ghost stories built a whole world out of one family.
Born Aracataca
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Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a small town in northern Colombia. He was raised largely by his grandparents. His grandmother told him ghost stories and family legends in a calm, matter-of-fact voice, as if the strange were ordinary. That tone would later become the heart of his writing.
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