Garcia Marquez Dies at 87

The Nobel-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died of pneumonia on Thursday at age 87.

Marquez, also known as ‘Gabo’, is known for using magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America.

He is the widely known author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez became one of the most popular Latin American novelists in the world and the godfather of a literary movement that witnessed a continent in turmoil.

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