The magical life of Gabriel García Márquez comes to life for the first time in a graphic novel.

So many books and studies have been written about the legend of world literature, Gabriel García Márquez, that his life has been transformed into multiple lives on paper.His name is associated with the most classic novels, *One Hundred Years of Solitude* and *Love in the Time of Cholera*, as well as with Magic Realism, defined as a literary genre that he himself established.GAMBO: Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of a Magical Life is the first graphic novel about the life of the popular Colombian author and has just been published in a translation by Kliti Sotiadou, who has also translated most of Márquez’s work into Greek. His devoted readers will be able to discover aspects of his life that until now were not particularly well known to the general public, such as the difficulties he faced before establishing himself, as well as how he handled his inspiration.Gabo — as his friends and admirers called him — was born in Aracataca, a village 160 km east of Cartagena, Colombia, on 6 March 1927. From his childhood in this village, he drew inspiration for his entire literary oeuvre. Macondo, the famous fictional village where the plot of his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude unfolds, is a reference to Aracataca.In his book *Los Nuestros* (Our People), Luis Harss, in presenting the birth of the movement that became known as the ‘Latin American Boom’, describes Gabriel García Márquez as ‘a man who can be shipwrecked without drowning’.This book aims to bring the reader closer to the life and work of García Márquez in the form of a graphic novel, tracing the epic journey that transformed the young man from Aracataca into a literary legend.Four key contributors collaborated on the book: Óscar Pantoja (scriptwriter and author), Miguel Bustos (illustrator and comic artist), Felipe Camargo Rojas (a graduate in fine arts from the Javeriana University in Bogotá) and Tatiana Córdoba (a visual artist from Bogotá). Start reading an excerpt from the book here.