Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died in Mexico aged 87, his family says.
Garcia Marquez was considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors, best known for his masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
The 1967 novel sold more than 30 million copies and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Garcia Marquez had been ill and had made few public appearances recently.
He achieved fame for pioneering magical realism, a unique blending of the marvellous and the mundane in a way that made the extraordinary seem routine.
With his books, he brought Latin America's charm and teaming contradictions to life in the minds of millions of people.
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died," a spokeswoman for the family, Fernanda Familiar, said on Twitter.
"[His wife] Mercedes and her sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo, have authorised me to provide the information. Such deep sadness," she added.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos also took to Twitter to pay tribute to the author.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time," he wrote.
More solitude for Gabriel
More solitude for Gabriel
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Re: More solitude for Gabriel
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: More solitude for Gabriel
Interesting, I recall that Bogota has a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cultural Center which contains a Juan Valdez cafeteria. And both Gabriel and Juan are mentioned in this thread. Coincidence?