Gabo's Hammock

About

Born in Aracataca, Colombia. Father Gabriel Eligio was a telegraph operator. Mother Luisa came from a prominent family -- her parents opposed the marriage. I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather, a retired colonel, told me war stories. My grandmother told them as if they were perfectly normal. 'There will be birds flying overhead who will tell me when she dies.' That was her voice. That became my voice. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the Time of Cholera. The Colonel Has No One to Write Him. I invented nothing -- I just wrote down what my grandmother told me, but with better structure. Magical realism isn't magic. It's how Latin Americans actually experience reality. The extraordinary happens every day. You just have to stop being surprised by it. Nobel Prize 1982. I wore a white liquiliqui instead of a tuxedo. Colombia's gift to world literature, in a hammock shirt.

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