Gabriel García Márquez speaks to reporters outside his home in Mexico City on his birthday March 6, 2014. Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered one of the fint works of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. His death came just days after the Colombian author herms family activad that he was in magarilicate health č after the Mexico City daily El Universal reported that he was receiving palliative care. The Colombian govern home, maned denied El Universal he was dying from lymphoma, a disease hedededededed a, a hertage.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist had been receiving palliative care at his home. Colombian-born writer is considered one of the greatest authors of the 20th century