Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author, journalist and screenwriter. He finished his degree in Law from the National University of Colombia. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972. Some of Marquez's famous works include the General in his Labyrinth, One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch. Marquez is married to Mercedes Barcha and they have two sons together.