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A12 PEOPLE & ARTS
Wednesday 19 January 2022

Colombian author García Márquez

had secret Mexican daughter

media, though he has nev-
er met her in person.
"My cousins Rodrigo and
Gonzalo told me about her
casually during a reunion,"
he said.
Other members of García
Márquez's family, cited by
El Universal, said they had
not spoken about the writ-
er's daughter previously out
of "respect" for Mercedes
Barcha who died in August
2020. q

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and Gonzalo. They lived
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) in Mexico City for much of
— For decades renowned their lives.
Colombian author Gabriel El Universal said that in the
García Márquez kept the early 1990s García Márquez
public from knowing about had a daughter with Su-
an intimate aspect of his sana Cato, a writer and
life: He had a daughter journalist who worked with
with a Mexican writer, with García Márquez on two
whom he had an extramar- movie scripts and who also
ital affair in the early 1990s. interviewed him for a 1996
The closely guarded secret magazine story. Cato and
was published by Colombi- García Márquez named
an newspaper El Universal their daughter Indira: She
on Sunday and confirmed is now in her early 30s and
to the Associated Press by uses her mother's surname.
two relatives of the Nobel Shani García Márquez,
Prize-winning author, who is one of the writer's nieces,
famous for novels like One told the AP that she had
Hundred Years of Solitude known for years about her
and Love in the Time of cousin Indira, but had not
Cholera. mentioned her to the me-
García Márquez died in dia because her parents
Mexico City in 2014, where always asked her to be
thousands of his readers discrete about her uncle's
lined up to see his casket in personal life.
a concert hall. He was mar- Gabriel Eligio Torres García,
ried for more than five de- who is also a nephew of
cades to Mercedes Barcha the Colombian writer, said
and the couple had two he has been in touch with
children named Rodrigo Indira Cato through social

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