Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do you know who this man is? What is his story? He is Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Colombian writer, he spent months of his life preparing his novel, which was called “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” After completing it, he went with his wife to the post office to send the novel to one of the publishing houses.
But the money was only enough to send half of the novel. They had nothing to sell or pawn except his typewriter and his wedding ring.
An argument broke out between them. He wanted to pawn the machine and she wanted to pawn the wedding ring.
He woke up the next day to find his wife had pawned her ring and sent the other half of the novel
This great lady's name is Mercedes Barca.
After a few months, Márquez's novel achieved international revenues, was translated into 21 languages, and millions of copies were sold, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for it.
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