Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez died
at the age of 87. His intoxicating novels and short stories uncovered several
millions of people outside Latin America. He died at his home in the Mexico
City. His family members said that he had just
returned home from the hospital last week.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is widely considered as the most popular writer in Spanish language ever since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century. He was affectionately called as Gabo by his fans and near and dear ones.
He was born in Colombia and grown up in the Caribbean coast of Columbia. He had also achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
His most popular creation was One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 which raised his voice as a novelist. Some other popular classics of him include Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Autumn of the Patriarch. He was awarded Nobel Prize in the year 1982.
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