The eNotes Blog Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Dead at87

Gabriel Garcà ­Ã‚ ­a Mrquez Dead at87 Celebrated Colombian  author Gabriel Garcà ­Ã‚ ­a Mrquez  died today at the age of 87 after a recent hospitalization for multiple infections. His death comes two years  after it was reported he was suffering from dementia. â€Å"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.† ―  Gabriel Garcà ­Ã‚ ­a Mrquez In his extroadinary lifetime Mrquez received widespread acclaim for his novels and short stories, including  One Hundred Years of Solitude,  Love in the Time of Cholera and  Chronicle of a Death Foretold.  One Hundred Years in particular became incredibly popular, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide in over 25 languages. With his works Mrquez  stood as an ambassador for Latin American literature, and the father of magical realism. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he dedicated his lecture to the spirit of Latin America, and revealed to the world its inextricable ties to his particular writing style: We have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. Mrquez is survived by his wife Mercedes and his two sons. He died at home in Mexico City. His memoirs remain unfinished. Gabriel Garcà ­Ã‚ ­a Mrquez Biography at Works of  Gabriel Garcà ­Ã‚ ­a Mrquez: Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings The General in His Labyrinth and more found here.