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| Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies | Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies |
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| Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died in Mexico aged 87, his family says. | |
| Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude. | Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
| The 1967 novel sold more than 30m copies and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. | The 1967 novel sold more than 30m copies and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. |
| Garcia Marquez had been ill and had made few public appearances recently. | Garcia Marquez had been ill and had made few public appearances recently. |
| "Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died," a spokeswoman for the family, Fernanda Familiar, said on Twitter. | |
| "Mercedes and her sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo, have authorised to give me the information. Such deep sadness," she added. | |
| 'Greatest Colombian' | |
| Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos also took to Twitter to pay tribute to the author. | |
| "One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time," he wrote. | |
| The cause of Garcia Marquez's death was not immediately known but he was recently hospitalised for a lung and urinary tract infection in Mexico City. | |
| He was sent home last week but his health was said to be "very fragile" because of his age. He had lived in Mexico for more than 30 years. | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez's other novels include Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the The General in His Labyrinth. |