Gabriel Garcia Marquez died

The Colombian master of "magical realism", the Nobel Prize in literature, died on Thursday, April 17 at the age of 87.

It is reported by Associated Press .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in the city of Arakatak in the north of Colombia on March 6, 1927, in 1946 he entered the Law Faculty of the National University of Bogota, but left from there in 1950, deciding to devote himself to journalism and literature.

In the mid-1950s, Marquez worked in the oldest Colombian newspaper El Espectador , as a correspondent traveled to Europe and the USA, in 1957 he visited Moscow at a festival of youth and students, writing about his pricing essays “USSR: 22,400,000 square kilometers without a uniform advertising of Coca-Cola!”.

At the same time, Marquez composed stories and scanning. In 1961, his story “Nobody writes to the Colonel” was released, in 1966 - the novel “Unkind Hour”. Markesu brought world fame the novel “A Hundred Years of Loneliness” (1967), which was subsequently translated into 25 languages ​​and spread around the world more than 50 million copies.

The writer published five more novels, dozens of stories, short stories, and scanning. In 1982, Gabrielle Garcia Marquez - the first of the Colombians - received the Nobel Prize in literature "For novels and stories, in which fantasy and reality, combining, reflect the life and conflicts of the whole continent."