Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), Nobel Prize Winning Novelist

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian-born author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, has died at at age 87. On the news of the passing of the magical realism author, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos referred to Garcia Marquez as “the greatest Colombian of all-time.”

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via The Guardian