Peru’s President Ollanta Humala Tasso has conveyed his deep sympathies and condolences over the passing of Latin America’s most-celebrated writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez to his family and the Colombian people.
The Peruvian leader issued a tweet saying, “Latin America and the whole world will feel the departure of this dreamer. Rest in peace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, there in Macondo [iconic fictional town featured at his earlier works]”.
The Nobel Prize winning-author died at the age of 87. He spend several weeks recovering at his Mexico city home after being hospitalized for infections, but died on Thursday by neumonia.
Garcia Marquez's health had its first significant hit in 1999 when he was dianogsed with lymphatic cancer and alzheimer in 2006 soon after as the cancer begin to spread through his body.
Affectionately nicknamed as Gabo, he is consided one of the most significant authours of the 20th century with credits that spanned from journalism and screenwritting to short stories of magical realism.
Colombian by birth, he was best-known worldwide for several novels including One Hundreds Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He is survived by his wife, Mercedes Barcha, and two sons.
His novels and short stories expose South American's heritage and more importantly its beauty as well as it violence and inequality. Garcia Marquez's books outsold everyting published in Spanish exept for the Bible.
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Published: 4/18/2014