Nobel-Winning Author Gabriel García Márquez Dies at 87

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that Gabriel García Márquez, the legendary Colombian author and Nobel laureate, died today at the age of 87.

Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, is widely credited with popularizing the genre of magical realism, as well as greatly influencing Latin American literature. He also authored Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of A Death Foretold, and the controversial Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

Of all his works, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains the most influential, selling over 50 million copies and translated into 25 languages.

[AP]
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