Colombian author García Márquez had secret Mexican daughter | AP News

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For decades, author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s.

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The closely guarded secret was published by Colombian newspaper El Universal on Sunday and confirmed to the Associated Press by two relatives of the Nobel Prize-winning author, who is famous for novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

El Universal said that in the early 1990s García Márquez had a daughter with Susana Cato, a writer and journalist who worked with García Márquez on two movie scripts and who also interviewed him for a 1996 magazine story. Cato and García Márquez named their daughter Indira: She is now in her early 30s and uses her mother’s surname.

Indira Cato is now a documentary producer in Mexico City. She won several awards for a 2014 documentary on migrants passing through Mexico.

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I wish I had a secret Mexican daughter

And?

I'm pretty sure he died a while ago, so the love-child was probably kept secret to safeguard the estate's fortune from another heir. Also, see related:

Damn. I thought Gabriel Garcia Márquez was Mexican.

Why would that be anybody's business anyway?

Why is this anyone’s business but the family’s?

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