Nobel author Gabo dead at 87
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning author of "One
Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," is
dead. He was 87.
Gabrial Garcia Marquez |
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared three days of
national mourning, ordering flags at half-staff.
Known by his nickname "Gabo" in Latin America, Marquez
was one of 11 children of a telegraph operator and was born in the northern
Colombian town of Aracataca, which became the inspiration for Macondo, the town
at the center of "Solitude," his 1967 masterpiece.
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