Pertho
April 18, 2014, 12:44am
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Spanish speaking world holding those losses today.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America’s passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at home in Mexico City around midday, according to people close to his family. He was 87.
Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works — among them “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” ''Love in the Time of Cholera" and “Autumn of the Patriarch” — outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.
(I don’t know why I thought he died a couple of years ago already.)
That just makes me feel even worse really, especially since I’ve still yet to read any of his stories, which is unfortunate. I’ve always heard quite a good things about them though; I just never got around to it like with way too many things still.
Regardless, may he rest in peace.
RIP Garcia Marquez, I read El coronel no tiene quien le escriba a few years ago, probably his best masterpiece