Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, a village on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. At the age of twenty, he published his first story, the following year he started working as a journalist, and he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. For more than half a century, he engaged in these two professions, enchanted by the "bitter charm of the typewriter". He is considered the foremost representative of "magical realism", and he always claimed: "There is not a single line in my novels that is not based on reality." During his career, he left an indelible mark in world literature, especially with the cult novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Age of Cholera . Finally, he is the creator of one of the richest storytelling worlds that the Spanish language gave to the 20th century. He passed away in Ciudad de México on April 17, 2014.