''Living to Tell the Tale'' (original

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title: ''Vivir para contarla'') is the first volume of the

autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...

. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by

Edith Grossman Edith Grossman (born March 22, 1936) is an American Spanish-to-English literary translator. One of the most important contemporary translators of Latin American and Spanish literature, she has translated the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas ...

published in 2003. ''Living to Tell the Tale'' tells the story of García Márquez's life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez's family, schooling, and early career as a

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in '' One Hundred Years of Solitude'' and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for ''

Chronicle of a Death Foretold ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' ( es, Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by th ...

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2002 non-fiction books Colombian non-fiction books Literary autobiographies Non-fiction books by Gabriel García Márquez Spanish-language books {{lit-bio-book-stub