The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was in kinship care as a small child.

The boy lived for his grandparents for the first 8 years of his life, and they had a significant influence on his development. Both were excellent storytellers and his grandmother contributed to Marquez’ magic realism style.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, a Spanish TV series based on Marquez’s 1967 eponymous novel, was released on Netflix on 11 December 2024.

The series includes the story of an orphan, Rebecca, who is taken in and adopted by José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán.