(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) xico City April 17 - Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 died Thursday at age 87 at his home in Mexico City Mexican authorities confirmed. The writer of the monumental One Hundred Years of Solitude one of the best-known and most-translated works in global literature had seen a deterioration of his health since he was hospitalized in late March for a lung infection. Doctors allowed him to return home after eight days in hospital but his condition remained fragile and he was undergoing oxygen therapy.Garcia Marquez was regarded as the father of the literary style known as magic realism as well as one of the main exponents of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s. Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa also a Nobel Prize for Literature laureate remains as a lone survivor of that generation dpa reported. Beyond One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Garcia Marquez also wrote The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) Love in the Time of the Cholera (1985) and many other works.Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca a town in the northern Colombian province of Magdalena on March 6 1927. His childhood in that banana-growing town served as inspiration for his literary works and Macondo the famous fictional village where One Hundred Years of Solitude is set is reminiscent of Aracataca.
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