'First Book' Written by Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Was A Sea Story
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Originally Published as a Series of Newspaper Articles
In the 1950s, before going on to write several of the greatest literary masterpieces of the 1900s, Gabriel García Márquez was a reporter at El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, Columbia, where he wrote a series of articles about a shipwrecked sailor. Years later, after Garcia Marquez achieved world fame, the articles were published as an instant classic entitled The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.
Even though Garcia Marquez has been immortalized as the author of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982), it's interesting that his personal wish was to be remembered for his journalistic writing and editing, and The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is clearly his most popular journalistic effort. In a 2019 New York Times article, Dwight Garner wrote about Marquez desire for his own legacy:
“Gabriel García Márquez, “Gabo” to his friends, lived for journalism. He wrote for newspapers and magazines his entire life, and he founded six publications himself. He once said, against the wisdom of the ages, “I do not want to be remembered for ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ nor for the Nobel Prize, but for the newspapers.”
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote many best selling literary masterpieces. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. |
“García Márquez (1927-2014) inhaled fresh ink the way the press critic A. J. Liebling did, as if it were cigar smoke. He called journalism “the best job in the world” and “a biological necessity of humanity.” He understood that newspapers and magazines not only deliver data but that they add, through commentary of all variety, to the gaiety of a society.”
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