Mercedes Barcha

Wife of novelist Gabriel García Márquez

(m. 1958; died 2014)

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Mercedes Raquel Barcha Pardo (November 6, 1932 – August 15, 2020) was the wife of novelist Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014).^[1]

Life

Barcha was born on November 6, 1932, in Magangué, Colombia. Barcha is best known for her financial and emotional support of her Nobel Prize-winning husband, the author Gabriel García Márquez.^[2]^[3] She met García Márquez in 1941 when they were both still children, and they married in Barranquilla in 1958.^[4] The couple had two children, including director Rodrigo García.^[5]

In 2014, after García Márquez's death, she served as the President Emerita of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism in Cartagena, Colombia. In 2017, she founded the Fundación Gabo to promote García Márquez's legacy.^[6]^[7]

Barcha died in Mexico City on August 15, 2020.^[4]

References

^ Green, Penelope (23 August 2020). "Mercedes Barcha, Gabriel García Márquez's Wife and Muse, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ "Addio a Mercedes Barcha, moglie di Gabriel Garcia Marquez". L'HuffPost (in Italian). 16 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ "Mercedes Barcha, 1932-2020". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Mercedes Barcha, el gran amor y la musa de Gabriel García Márquez". ABC (in Spanish). 16 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ Osorio, Camila (15 August 2020). "Muere Mercedes Barcha, la mujer que hizo posible el éxito de García Márquez". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ "Fundador". Fundación Gabo (in Spanish). 30 November 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
^ Bhattacharyya, Indradeep (24 August 2020). "Mercedes Barcha Pardo Fuelled Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Literary World". The Wire. Retrieved 24 September 2020.