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STREET - ARACATACA - COLOMBIA | | Aracataca
is a small town about 30kms inland from the Caribbean. At one time it was a stop
on the railway line from the coast to Bogotá the capital. The climate is
tropical and life is easy going. The main street is busy with people, noisy with
music and totally unhurried. It was here back in March 1927 that Gabriel García
Márquez was born. 'Gabo' as he known affectionately is Colombia's only
Nobel prize winning author and just one of four in Latin America. He began writing
in journalism and after turning to literature his major novel One Hundred Years
of Solitude was published in 1967 as Cien Años de Soledad.
The story is set in
Macondo a fictional village often seen as Aracataca |  |
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Player will show here | A
1983 edition of the
book in its 8th British paperback printing. | | | The
house where 'Gabo' lived as a young boy is at Carrera 5. 6-21 , a few steps from
the main street. |
 | From-
Vivir para Contarle / Living to Tell the Tale - the first part of his autobiography
[2002] | | "Cuando
el abuelo me regaló un diccionario me despertó tal curiosidad por
las palabras que lo leía como una novela, en orden alfabético y
sin entenderlo apenas. Así fue mi primer contacto con el que habría
de ser el libro fundamental en mi destino de escritor". | | "When
Grandfather gave me a dictionary, it awakened such a curiosity about words in
me that I read it like a novel, in alphabetical order, scarcely understanding
it. That was my first contact with what would be the fundamental book
in my destiny as a writer. |
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and editing: Tony Morrison / Sound : local from the street For
pictures of Colombia visit COLOMBIA
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look in Archaeology, Colombia for more including some fabulous ancient gold. |
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