Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies At 87 Years Of Age

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies At 87 Years Of Age

Nobel laureate and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away this Thursday at his home in Mexico City at the age of 87. The author was born in Colombia and wrote some of the biggest sellers of the past century. Among his best known books are “One Hundred Years of Solitude” or “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

The novelist started having health problems in March being admitted in a Mexico City hospital on the 7th for a lung infection. He recovered enough to be discharged and treated from his home just nine days later.

Marquez is thought to be the most important and best-selling Spanish author since Miguel de Cervantes who wrote the 17th century masterpiece “Don Quixote.” The only other Spanish-language book that outsold Marquez’ work was the Bible.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was considered to be one of the pioneers of the magical realism style, where authors combine fact and fiction, fantastical elements and mundane stereotypes. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

He was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1927. The author first worked as a journalist in Colombia before relocating to Mexico City. It was there where he write his most famous novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” an immense success translated in over 25 languages and sold all across the globe.

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