Nobel Prize-winning author who pioneered magical realism
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and screenwriter, best known for popularizing the literary style of magical realism. His most celebrated novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," is considered a masterpiece of world literature. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his rich and imaginative storytelling that wove the fantastic with the political and personal.
A quote from Gabriel García Márquez about their education:
"I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life"
Gabriel García Márquez attended a Montessori school in Colombia, where he credited the freedom to explore and observe with sparking his early love of storytelling and imagination.