Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez Dies at 87 MEXICO CITY - TopicsExpress



          

Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez Dies at 87 MEXICO CITY (April 17, 2014, Associated Press): A person close to the family has confirmed reports that that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. He was 87. Garcia Marquezs magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin Americas passion, superstition, violence and inequality. Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. His flamboyant and melancholy works outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:37:18 +0000

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