The Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and author of some of the best-known works of magical realism, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Colonel Has No One write, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, died on April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City, a victim of cancer. He was 87 years old.
Known as Gabo, the Nobel Prize winner was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca (Colombia).
