: Was The "Angel's" Intent For Him to be Profited From? Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born in 1928 in the town of Aracataca in the Magdalena province of Columbia, is a writer who does not use real events to create his stories, rather images and fantasy-like magical realistic notions. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, which reflected the extent of his magical talent to write. He was the oldest of twelve children and was born into a poverty-stricken family. Despite his poor childhood, Garcia Marquez went through schooling and went o ....