Mysterious secret revealed for Colombian writer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez had a secret Mexican daughter
Some new information about Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is coming to light.
The portal The Hollywood Reporter writes that on January 16, the Colombian newspaper "El Universal" revealed that the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" had a secret child with a Mexican journalist, with whom he had an affair in the early 1990s.
Gabriel lived in Mexico City most of his life with his wife Mercedes Barça and their two children Rodrigo and Gonzalo. The author died in 2014.
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"El Universal" writes that in the early 1990s he had a daughter with the writer and journalist Suzana Kato. The couple worked on two film scripts together, and she also interviewed him for a magazine story in 1996.
Their daughter Indira is now in her 30s and uses her mother's last name.
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Gabriel's granddaughter, Shani Garcia Marquez, said she had known about her cousin Indira for years but had not made any public statements because her parents had asked her to keep her uncle's privacy private.
The author's grandson, Gabriel Eligio Torres Garcia, said he had been in contact with Indira on social media but had never met her in person.
"My cousins Rodrigo and Gonzalo told me about her spontaneously during one of our meetings," he said.
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Other members of the writer's family told El Universal that they had not spoken publicly about Indira out of respect for Mercedes Barça, who died in August 2020.
Indira is currently working as a documentary filmmaker in Mexico City.
"She leads a very artistic lifestyle, as do many people in this family," said Shani Garcia. "It does not make us very happy that she shone alone."
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