Mercedes Barcha
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Mercedes Raquel Barcha Pardo was the wife of novelist Gabriel García Márquez.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded t
Mercedes Barcha
…her Nobel Prize-winning husband, the author Gabriel García Márquez. She famously pawned her hair dryer to raise the postage needed to mail the draft of One Hundred Years of Solitude to the publisher. She went by the nickname "La Gaba", a feminine version of her husband's nickname "Gabo…
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