Gabriel Garcia Marquez died

The famous Colombian writer, Nobel Laureate in 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, died in the capital of Mexico at the age of 87. This was reported by the BBC with reference to the relatives of the deceased.

A few days ago, Marquez was discharged from the clinic in Mexico City, where he spent more than a week and underwent a course of treatment with antibiotics in connection with the pulmonary infection. Doctors also found dehydration from Marquez.

Columbia President Juan Manuel Santos declared three -day mourning in the country. “Colombia grieves after our favorite compatriot all time left us. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, our Nobel Prize winner, was a Colombian who was able to raise the name of the Motherland to the largest height in the history of our country,” said Santos.

Marquez was born in 1927 in the city of Arakatak in Colombia. He began his literary career with journalism. The first story, “Palais Foliage”, wrote back in the late 1940s, but was able to publish only in 1955.

Markes's works were created in the genre of "magical realism." This current, originating in Latin America, combined a real historical narrative canvas with elements of a fairy tale, hallucinatory dreams and folklore.

The first novel by Marquez, “Hundred Years of Loneliness”, published in 1967, brought him glory and commercial success. The novel "Autumn of the Patriarch" (1975) is also widely known. The last large book of the writer, "Remembering my sad whores," was the light in 2004.

In the 1990s, the health of Markes, the author of the seven novels and dozens of stories and stories, worsened very much. He had to fight at once with two cancer diseases, from which he was able to recover. In 2012, the relatives of the Nobel laureate reported that he discovered Alzheimer's disease. The last time in the public the writer appeared in early March of this year, when he left his house to communicate with reporters and fans who celebrated his birthday.