Colombian author became standard-bearer for Latin American letters after success of One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who unleashed the worldwide boom in Spanish literature with his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, has died at the age of 87. He had been admitted tohospital in Mexico City on 3 April with pneumonia.
Matching commercial success with critical acclaim, García Márquez became a standard-bearer for Latin American letters, establishing a route for negotiations between guerillas and the Colombian government, building a friendship with Fidel Castro, and maintaining a feud with fellow literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa that lasted more than 30 years.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said via Twitter: “A thousand years of solitude and sadness at the death of the greatest Colombian of all time. More.
See: The Guardian
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Mexico
Local time: 13:46
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo). A major mourning for the literary community, Gabo draw worlds of imagination and parables of magical poetry between real images of beautiful places... My sincere condolences to Mercedes, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. Aracataca people will be sad, Colombia as well and his last home in Coyoacán, México will not be empty but keeping the lines we all (almost!) read once... Adiós Gabo! Gracias.
Suriname
Local time: 16:46
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I read almost all of his books. My sincere condolences to everyone, he was one of my favorite writers.
France
Local time: 21:46
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The kind of writer who makes me wish I could translate from Spanish
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