Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at age 87
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the master of magical realism whose rich and allusive explorations of myth and reality in Latin America won him the Nobel prize for literature and a place among the greatest writers of the 20th century, has died. He was 87.
The Associated Press reported his death, but details were not immediately available.
Known throughout Latin America by the pet name “Gabo,” the Colombian-born Mr. Garcia Marquez was a journalist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, memoirist and student of political history and modernist literature.
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