one on one with Gabriel García Márquez

Hi there! Today I will talk about Gabriel García Márquez, my absolute favorite writer. As I say before, he is a writer, novelist, storyteller, scriptwriter and journalist from Colombia, born on March 6 from 1927. García Márquez is famous all over the world as one of the most important writers from Latinoamerica, especially because he won the Nobel Prize of Poetry in 1982, principally because his book “Cien Años de Soledad”. This, also, is the most representative work about Magical Realism, a genre developed in Latinoamerica since 1947, and read a beautiful speech about the situation here in that time, expressing, also, his political thoughts.

 For me, this writer is the best writer ever seen!. I love read his books and imagine in my mind all the things he says in his stories and obviously the way he write them, and makes me feel happy that an artist like him had the opportunity to express and put the Latinoamerican literature in a special place in the world. I think that is very difficult choose only 3 questions; actually, I would like to talk him free, for hours and days! But a supposed that the first questions could be:




What were you thinking when you wrote “100 Años de Soledad”?
How did you get the names of characters and places?
What do you think about the actual situation of Latinoamerica?
Would you write a novel about the student’s demonstrations in Chile?

That's all folks!

the best mixture: a memorable journey!

There are a lot of activities that I really like to do: my favorite is dancing, but the next one could perfectly be travelling, in Chile or out, that it’s not important, but it’s very difficult decide which is the most important, because everyone has been special in their own ways. So I decide to choose a journey to Valdivia the last year, with my classmates in Geography. I remember that at first I wasn’t on the list, because I had problems with a subject, but in the end, the teacher said there was no problem, and the reason was that the purpose of this trip was the World and National Congress of Geography. So, on a Monday, after a class that finished at 18:15 pm, I and other 18 classmates run to our homes to get our luggage, because our tickets were for three hours later. We arrived to Valdivia about 9 in the morning, and we had to walk in the rain in the streets of that beautiful city, it was very cold, but the sun appeared between the clouds for a while, and then, cloudy again. So, we went to the Austral University of Chile, in a place called Teja Island, we arrived there after we crossed the Calle Calle River. In the place, we inscribed and we received our credentials, and then, we looked for a place to sleep. We found a nice camping and some hours later we were at the conference again. It is important because it was a very beautiful experience spend time with my classmates for five days  and have a lot of fun with them, we sing, we dance, we cook, and the last day we visited Niebla, some beaches  and the bus that we took wasn't working good, so we had to push it (that was very funny), after that we bought some presents for our families and we drank delicious beer at Kunstmann factory. We learned and we had fun… This is the best mixture for a student, isn’t it?