Quo Fuit places 11 dated presences for Gabriel García Márquez across 9 places, from 1927 to 2014.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Gabriel José García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Gabriel García Márquez was documented, and when
6 March 1927exact date
Caribbean region of Colombiaattested“Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, in the Caribbean region of Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
6 March 1927exact date
Caribbeanattested“Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, in the Caribbean region of Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1947year
National University of Colombiaattested“After his graduation in 1947, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá to study law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, but spent most of his spare time reading fiction.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1947year
Bogotattested“After his graduation in 1947, García Márquez stayed in Bogotá to study law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, but spent most of his spare time reading fiction.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1950year
Barranquillaattested“In 1950, he ended his legal studies to focus on journalism and moved again to Barranquilla to work as a columnist and reporter in the newspaper El Heraldo.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1951year
Sucre, Sucre Departmentattested“Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada), which literary critic Ruben Pelayo called a combination of journalism, realism and detective story, is inspired by a real-life murder that took place in Sucre, Colombia, in…”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1951year
Sucre, Colombiaattested“Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada), which literary critic Ruben Pelayo called a combination of journalism, realism and detective story, is inspired by a real-life murder that took place in Sucre, Colombia, in…”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1954 to 1955period
Bogotattested“From 1954 to 1955, García Márquez spent time in Bogotá and regularly wrote for Bogotá's El Espectador.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1956 to 1958period
Barranquillaattested“From 1956, he spent two years in Europe, returning to marry Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla in 1958, and to work on magazines in Caracas, Venezuela.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1956 to 1958period
Caracasattested“From 1956, he spent two years in Europe, returning to marry Mercedes Barcha in Barranquilla in 1958, and to work on magazines in Caracas, Venezuela.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
17 April 2014exact date
Mexicoattested“Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said his country was thinking of the author and said in a tweet: "All of Colombia wishes a speedy recovery to the greatest of all time: Gabriel García Márquez." García Márquez died of pneumonia at t…”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
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Barranquillamentioned“However, when his grandfather died in March 1937, the family moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then on to Sucre, where his father started a pharmacy.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
March 1937month
Sucre, Sucre Departmentmentioned“However, when his grandfather died in March 1937, the family moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then on to Sucre, where his father started a pharmacy.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
Mexico Citymentioned“In 1961, the family traveled by Greyhound bus throughout the southern United States and eventually settled in Mexico City.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1968 to 1975period
Spainmentioned“He said, "it was the first time we had seen a dictator fall in Latin America." García Márquez began writing Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoño del patriarca) in 1968 and said it was finished in 1971; however, he continued to embellish the…”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
1983year
Mexicomentioned“Nonetheless, he worked on rewriting the script in collaboration with Ruy Guerra, and the film was released in Mexico in 1983.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
Guadalajaramentioned“In December 2008 García Márquez told fans at the Guadalajara book fair that writing had worn him out.”source: Wikipedia: Gabriel García Márquez
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