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The journalist and writer Gustavo Tatis Guerra has revealed the best kept secret of Gabriel García Márquez: the Nobel Prize winner for Literature had a secret daughter with the Mexican journalist Susana Gato. The news, which confirms a rumor that has been going on for years, has been made public through an extensive report in the newspaper
‘The Universal of Cartagena’. In it, Tatis Guerra reveals the identity of the young woman, the Mexican filmmaker Indira Cato, whose name would have been chosen by García Márquez in honor of the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Ghandi, the first person who called him to congratulate him after be awarded by the Swedish Academy in 1982.
In the chronicle, which was published after the death of Mercedes Barcha, García Márquez’s wife, Tatis Guerra explains that Indira has never used the last name of the Colombian writer, but rather that of her mother, with whom Gabo wrote the scripts for several films .
The supposed daughter of the author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and among her works are the documentary ‘Take my loves away’ (2014) and the short ‘What great you are, magazo!’ (2019), whose script was written by his mother.
“A colleague of all solvency confirmed to me the existence of Indira, daughter of García Márquez”, writes Tatis Guerra that biographer Dasso Saldívar told him. The Colombian journalist says that Saldívar, who had also been trying to confirm this rumor for some time, informed him that he saw an old photograph of Gabo with the girl on his lap and added: “I will not forget her as long as I live.” Saldívar even commented with Gerald Martin, also Gabo’s biographer, about who or how the story should be told.
Tatis Guerra claims to have confirmed the news with several relatives, in addition to the aforementioned biographers, and maintains that they kept silent “out of respect for Mercedes Barcha and loyalty to Gabo, they did not dare to mention the secret, much less to their own children.” ». «García Márquez, the greatest literary genius of Colombia before the world, is already above good and evil, and everything that can be revealed about him today only reconfirms his splendid humanity and his infinite greatness that grows bigger every time in the world. universe, beyond his death. The secret cannot lose the deep meaning of the human. The heart of a man and the heart of a woman. The delicate intimacy of a genius like García Márquez », he argues in his chronicle.
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