Gabriel Garcia Marquez died

In Mexico City, at the age of 87, the famous Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a bright representative of the literature of the so -called magical realism and the Nobel Prize in 1982 literature, died.

One of the largest Latin American prose writers of the second half of the 20th century, the author of the books “A Hundred Years of Loneliness”, “Chronicle of Declared Death”, “Autumn of the Patriarch”, “No one writes to the Colonel”, “Love in the days of cholera” and others, Marquez debuted in literature in 1947 with the story “Third Humility”. His last book, a collection of previously unpublished speeches, "I am not here to talk about speeches" - was published in 2010.

Marquez adhered to socialist views, sympathized with the left and ultra -American political regimes. Since the end of the 1940s, he collaborated with Colombian and Bolivian newspapers, in 1974 the Alternative magazine, which had been pronouncing until the end of the decade, in the first issue of which was condemned by a military coup in Chile. Sometimes he supported the public initiatives that caused contradictory responses-in particular, in the mid-2000s, together with other cultural figures, he made an appeal on the provision of independence of Puerto Rico. The speech of the Nobel laureate called "Latin America" Marquez devoted to the sociocultural problems of the development of his continent.

Recently, a writer, who in the late 1990s diagnosed a cancer, underwent several complex operations. Markes's hospitalization in one of the Mexico Clinic a week ago was associated with pulmonary infection and dehydration.

“A thousand years of loneliness and sadness because of the death of the greatest Colombian of all time. I express my solidarity and condolences to the family,” Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, wrote on Twitter .