Nobel laureate and noted author Gabriel García Márquez kept an intimate aspect of his life hidden from the public for decades. About six years after his death, this secret has now come in front of the people. Gabriel García Márquez had an affair with a Mexican female writer in the 1990s, and the two also had a daughter from this relationship, whom they named Indira.
This secret, carefully kept hidden for decades, was now brought to the public by a Colombian newspaper “El Universal” through a report on Sunday. Two close relatives of Gabriel García Márquez, who wrote classic novels such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Kalra”, have confirmed this secret.
Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014 in Mexico City, where thousands of readers came that day to see the coffin of their beloved author, kept in a concert hall. Gabriel García Márquez used to write in Spanish. How great a writer he was, it can be gauged from the fact that after the Bible in Spanish, only Marquez’s books have been sold. This is the reason why Gabriel García Márquez is considered the ‘greatest writer after God’.
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Gabriel García Márquez was officially married to Mercedes Barcha. The couple lived together for nearly 5 decades and the couple has two children named Rodrigo and Gonzalo. Both spent most of their lives in Mexico City.
The Colombian newspaper “El Universal” reported in its report that Marquez had an affair with Suzana Cato, a Mexican writer and journalist, in the 1990s and they also have a daughter. The newspaper reported that Susannah Kato had worked with Marquez to write two movie scripts. Along with this, he also interviewed Marquez in 1996 for a magazine. Kato and Marquez named their daughter Indira. The newspaper reported that Indira is currently around 30 years old and she uses her mother’s surname.
Gabriel García Márquez’s niece Shani García Márquez told the newspaper that she had known her cousin Indira for many years but never mentioned her in the media because her parents always told her about her uncle’s personal life. Was told not to talk about it.
Gabriel García Márquez’s nephew, Gabriel Eligio Torres García, said that he has been in touch with Indira Cato through social media, although he has never met her in person. He told that my cousins Rodrigo and Gonzalo told that they often meet Indira at family reunions.
Other family members of Gabriel García Márquez said they never spoke about Marquez’s affair or his daughter out of respect for Mercedes Barcha. Gabriel García Márquez’s wife Mercedes Barcha passed away in August 2020. Torres Garcia said that Indira Cato’s mother Suzana also kept quiet about her daughter’s father as she always wanted to keep Indira away from the media limelight.
According to the newspaper, Indira Kato currently lives in Mexico City and is a documentary producer. He also received several awards in 2014 for a documentary on migrants passing through Mexico. Shani Garcia said, she lives a very artistic lifestyle like many in this family. “It makes us so happy to see that she is making her mark on her own,” she added.
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