Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, the Colombian novelist whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday the 17th April, 2014 at his
home in Mexico City. He was 87.
His death was confirmed by Cristobal Pera, his former editor at Random House.
Garcia Marquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience.
His death was confirmed by Cristobal Pera, his former editor at Random House.
Garcia Marquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience.
Suffering from
lymphatic cancer, which was diagnosed in 1999, Garcia Marquez devoted most of
his subsequent writing to his memoirs. One exception was the novel
"Memories of My Melancholy Whores," about the love affair between a
90-year-old man and a 14-year-old prostitute, published in 2004.
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