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Community => Society and History => Topic started by: dpareja on April 17, 2014, 10:45:30 pm
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-winning-author-dead-at-87-1.2614237
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning magic realist behind the beloved novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, has died at the age of 87, according to sources close to the family.
The beloved Spanish-language writer died at home in Mexico City around midday, sources told The Associated Press, confirming Mexican newspaper reports Thursday afternoon. The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity out of respect for the family's privacy.
He also, of course, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the citation being:
for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/
(Yes, I realize the CBC article lacks the diacriticals. I refuse to omit them.)
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Damn. He wasn't my favourite writer or anything (though I did love A Hundred Years of Solitude), but there were just so few Spanish-language writers that could be considered truly Great, and he was one of them.
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My dad went to Costa Rica a lot on business, eventually retired and passed away there, spoke and wrote Spanish fluently...and Garcia Marquez became one of his favorite authors. If there's an afterlife, Dad is in line with A Hundred Years of Solitude to get it autographed.
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Rest in peace.