Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dead At Age 87
Colombia writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, died Thursday at his home in Mexico City at age 87. Garcia Marquez had been in failing health for some time. He was released from the hospital just over a week ago.
His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works — among them “Chronicle of a Death expected,” “Love within the Time of Cholera” and “Autumn of the Patriarch” — outsold everything revealed in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude sold quite fifty million copies in additional than twenty five languages.
His stories created him literature’s known professional person of charming realism, the fictional mixing of the everyday with fantastical parts like a boy born with a pig’s tail and a person trailed by a swarm of yellow butterflies.
His death was confirmed by 2 folks near the family UN agency spoke on condition of obscurity out of respect for the family’s privacy.
Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, a tiny low Colombian city close to the Caribbean coast, on March 6, 1927. He was the eldest of the eleven youngsters of Luisa Santiaga Marquez and Gabriel Elijio Garcia, a telegraph operator and a wandering medical aid druggist UN agency was additionally one thing of a rounder and fathered a minimum of four youngsters outside of his wedding.