Gabriel García Márquez – a life in pictures
The Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who has died aged 87, helped to ignite the worldwide boom in Spanish literature with novels such as 100 Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Here we celebrate his life with a selection of images charting his journey from childhood in northern Colombia to global literary titan
-
Gabriel García Márquez at his house in Mexico City, 2010. Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP
-
Gabriel García Márquezez as a baby. Photograph: Balcells Archive
-
Gabriel García Márquez and family. Left to right: Margot García Márquez, Eduardo Márquez (a cousin), Gabriel García Márquez, Luis Enroque Márquez and Aida Márquez. Seated is Ligia García Márquez. Photograph: Balcells Archive
-
Gabriel García Márquez. Photograph: Balcells Archive
-
-
Gabriel García Márquez, 1972. Photograph: Katherine Young/Getty Images
-
Gabriel García Márquez with a copy of his book One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1975. Photograph: Isabel Steva Hernandez (Colita)/Corbis
-
Lelio Basso makes his speech at the Tribunale Russell II/Repressione in America Latina, next to Gabriel García Márquezz and Vladimir Dedijer, Rome, 1979. Photograph: Team/Alinari/Rex
-
Gabriel García Márquez at his house in Cartagena, Colombia, 1982. Photograph: Piero Pomponi/Getty Images
-
-
Gabriel García Márquez kisses his wife Mercedes Barcha on his arrival at the airport in Stockholm to attend the Nobel award ceremonies, 1982. Photograph: Topham/AP
-
Gabriel García Márquez after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, 1982. Photograph: Bertil Ericson/AFP/Getty Images
-
Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel Castro at Revolution Square, Cuba, during the inauguration of the first Cuban 'National Olympic games' in 2002. Photograph: Jose Goitia/AP
-
Gabriel García Márquez and his wife, Mercedes Barcha, upon their arrival to Aracataca on his first visit in 25 years to his hometown, 2007. Photograph: William Fernando Martinez
-
-
Gabriel García Márquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his birthday in Mexico City, 2014. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
-
Eliza Triana in Of Love and Other Demons, (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios), 2010 Photograph: c.Everett Collection/Rex
-
Benjamin Bratt and Giovanna Mezzogiorno in Love In The Time Of Cholera, 2007. Photograph: c.New Line/Everett/Rex
