Colombian author García Márquez had secret Mexican daughter

BOGOTA – For decades renowned Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez kept the nationalist from knowing astir an intimate facet of his life: He had a girl with a Mexican writer, with whom helium had an extramarital matter successful the aboriginal 1990s.

The intimately guarded concealed was published by Colombian paper El Universal connected Sunday and confirmed to the Associated Press by 2 relatives of the Nobel Prize-winning author, who is celebrated for novels similar One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love successful the Time of Cholera.

Márquez died successful Mexico City successful 2014, wherever thousands of his readers lined up to spot his casket successful a performance hall. He was joined for much than 5 decades to Mercedes Barcha and the mates had 2 children named Rodrigo and Gonzalo. They lived successful Mexico City for overmuch of their lives.

El Universal said that successful the aboriginal 1990s Márquez had a girl with Susana Cato, a writer and writer who worked with Márquez connected 2 movie scripts and who besides interviewed him for a 1996 mag story. Cato and Marquez named their girl Indira: She is present successful her aboriginal 30s and uses her mother’s surname.

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Shani García Márquez, 1 of the writer’s nieces, told the AP that she had known for years astir her relative Indira, but had not mentioned her to the media due to the fact that her parents ever asked her to beryllium discrete astir her uncle’s idiosyncratic life.

Gabriel Eligio Torres García, who is besides a nephew of the Colombian writer, said helium has been successful interaction with Indira Cato done societal media, though helium has ne'er met her successful person.

“My cousins Rodrigo and Gonzalo told maine astir her casually during a reunion,” helium said.

Other members of García Márquez’s family, cited by El Universal, said they had not spoken astir the writer’s girl antecedently retired of “respect” for Mercedes Barcha who died successful August 2020. Torres García said that Indira Cato’s mother, Susana, had besides been discrete astir her daughter’s lineage, to support her distant from the media spotlight.

Indira Cato is present a documentary shaper successful Mexico City. She won respective awards for a 2014 documentary connected migrants passing done Mexico.

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“She leads a precise creator lifestyle, similar galore radical successful this family” said Shani García. “It makes america precise blessed that she has shined connected her own.”

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