Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (March 6, 1927[1] – April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He was best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His books were mainly about satire, solitude, magic realism, realism, and violence.
Gabriel García Márquez | |
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Born | (1927-03-06)March 6, 1927 Aracataca, Colombia |
Died | April 17, 2014(2014-04-17) (aged 87) Mexico City, Mexico |
Occupation | novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. |
Nationality | Colombian |
Literary movement | Magical Realism |
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Márquez was sick with Alzheimer's disease after being diagnosed in 2012. He lived with his wife, Mercedes Barcha in Mexico City where he died from pneumonia in 2014 at the age of 87.[2]
He is the most-translated Spanish-language author.[3] After García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived."[4]