Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 87
By Todd Leopold, CNN
updated 9:55 AM EDT, Mon April 21, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez, the influential, Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred
Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," has died, his family and officials
said. He was 87.
The literary giant was treated in April for infections and dehydration at a Mexican hospital.
[5] García Márquez, a native of Colombia, is widely credited with helping to popularize
"magical realism," a genre "in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly
composed world of imagination," as the Nobel committee described it upon awarding him
the prize for literature in 1982.
He was sometimes called the most significant Spanish-language author since Miguel de
[10] Cervantes, the 16th-century author of "Don Quixote" and one of the great writers in
Western literature. Indeed, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda told Time that "One Hundred Years
of Solitude" was "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of
Cervantes."
The author's cousin, Margarita Marquez, and Colombia's ambassador to Mexico, José
[15] Gabriel Ortiz, confirmed the author's death to CNN on Thursday. "We're left with the
memories and the admiration to all Colombians and also Mexicans because I think Gabo
was half Mexican and half Colombian. He's just as admired in Mexico as he is in (his
native) Colombia, all of Latin America and throughout the world," Ortiz told CNN.
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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/americas/ gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies/index.html Accessed in May, 2014.
Glossary:
Dehydration: desidratação
Genre: gênero literário
Widely: largamente
Upon awarding: concedendo
Western: ocidental
Indeed: de fato
Ambassador: embaixador
Half: metade
Throughout: em todo
According to the text, Gabriel García Márquez is recognized for helping to disseminate a literary genre.
