Did you know all these facts about famous writers?

They say that in the art world is where we can find the more eccentric and "crazy" people, and in this world, the beloved and adored by all of us, literature, enters of course. Today, I wanted to collect in this article some data, curious to say the least, of certain famous writers. Among them are Julio Verne, Gabriel García Márquez or Shakespeare himself. If you want to know what the others are, you will have to continue reading with us. Do not miss it!

Julio Verne

• If his books were famous, perhaps all the films that have been made thanks to his works are more so. Total, 95 movies based on his books.
• Legend has it that his escapes, those that he recounts so much in his books, began in real life at the age of 11. Moment when would run away from home with the sole purpose of leaving for India to buy a necklace for his cousin, with whom he was madly in love.
• Was visionary of the future. He said that by the year 2889 we would have means of transportation that would reach 1.500 kilometers per hour ...
• Is second most translated author in the world, according to UNESCO. The first place is occupied by another great of the letters: Agatha Christie.

Alvaro Mutis

• Forged a great friendship with our dear Gabo, which we will talk about later. Mutis gave G. Márquez one of the first typewriters and it was he who introduced him to the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
• He liked plants very much, especially those that reminded him of his native country, Colombia. Specifically, they were lemon trees (Mutis had one planted in his house), banana trees and acacias.
• Was in jail: He went into exile in Mexico after being accused of embezzling money from a well-known company where he worked.
• He was multifaceted, since he was not only a writer: he was also a teacher, translator, announcer on the National Radio of Colombia, political advisor, business advisor, traveling agent, theater director, etc.
• Got numerous awards and decorations: Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 1997, Queen Sofía Award for Ibero-American Poetry in 1997, Cervantes Award in 2001 and finally, Neustadt International Literature Award in 2002.

William Shakespeare

• He had no offspringUnfortunately… Although she had two children, one of them passed away, and the other had a granddaughter but died childless.
• He married a pregnant woman much older than him: He was only 18 years old and Anne Hathaway, who would be his wife, was 26 at the time.
• His grave is cursed: His epitaph reads as follows, «Good friend, by Jesus, refrain from digging in the dust here locked up. Blessed is the man who respects these stones and cursed is he who removes my bones ". It is also said that in this tomb are the unpublished works that the writer wrote in life.
• Despite the fact that we have already become accustomed to writing his surname "correctly" (even though it is quite complicated), the author himself signed his writings in the following ways: Shakespeare, Shakspe, shakespere y Shakespeare.
• Invented more than 1.700 words, among them some so used today as: amazement, arrogance, murder, bloody, generous, way and / or suspicious.

Gabriel García Márquez

• His work "The Colonel has no one to write to him" was written from penury more absolute that the Colombian writer would live. He was staying in the attic of a hotel in Paris. Curiously, years later another great writer would arrive at that same attic: Mario Vargas Llosa. There he wrote, also under poverty, "The city and the Dogs".
• Both his life and his work have been so interesting that around him they have also been raised false works that were not really his own. Did you get that chain of emails that was titled Gabo's farewell letter? If so, tell you that the letter was not written by him, nor is its real author known.
• He loved yellow flowers because he considered that they brought him good luck.
• I was quite superstitious. He firmly believed that snails behind the door, peacocks, plastic flowers or 'tailcoats' were bad luck.
• It was fan of singer Shakira. He had the opportunity to interview her on one occasion, and from that moment on, he began to listen to her music and admire it. He said about her that her music had a personal stamp.
• He never wanted a film to be made of his best-known and most widely-purchased work: "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

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