For many years famend Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez stored the general public from understanding about an intimate facet of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican author, with whom he had an extramarital affair within the early Nineteen Nineties.
The intently guarded secret was printed by Colombian newspaper El Universal on Sunday and confirmed to the Associated Press by two kin of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who is legendary for novels like ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’.
Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City in 2014, the place 1000’s of his readers lined as much as see his casket in a live performance corridor. He was married for greater than 5 many years to Mercedes Barcha and the couple had two youngsters named Rodrigo and Gonzalo. They lived in Mexico City for a lot of their lives.
El Universal mentioned that within the early Nineteen Nineties Garcia Marquez had a daughter with Susana Cato, a author and journalist who labored with Garcia Marquez on two film scripts and who additionally interviewed him for a 1996 journal story. Cato and Garcia Marquez named their daughter Indira: She is now in her early 30s and makes use of her mom’s surname.
Shani Garcia Marquez, one of many author’s nieces, informed the AP that she had recognized for years about her cousin Indira, however had not talked about her to the media as a result of her dad and mom all the time requested her to be discrete about her uncle’s private life.
Gabriel Eligio Torres Garcia, who can also be a nephew of the Colombian author, mentioned he has been in contact with Indira Cato via social media, although he has by no means met her in particular person.
“My cousins Rodrigo and Gonzalo told me about her casually during a reunion,” he mentioned.
Other members of Garcia Marquez’s household, cited by El Universal, mentioned they’d not spoken concerning the author’s daughter beforehand out of “respect” for Mercedes Barcha who died in August 2020. Torres Garcia mentioned that Indira Cato’s mom, Susana, had additionally been discrete about her daughter’s lineage, to maintain her away from the media highlight.
Indira Cato is now a documentary producer in Mexico City. She received a number of awards for a 2014 documentary on migrants passing via Mexico.
Garcia Marquez’ household mentioned they didn’t need to share her contact info as a result of they weren’t approved to take action, and the AP couldn’t contact Indira Cato independently.
“She leads a very artistic lifestyle, like many people in this family,” mentioned Shani Garcia. “It makes us very happy that she has shined on her own.”
