DUSHANBE, April 19, 2019, 2014, Asia-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmon extended his condolences over the death of magical realism writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

In his cable of condolences, Tajik leader noted that “the essence of human and global philosophy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez was in reminding mankind of their mission on Earth, humanism and generosity, moral purity, the necessity of living in peace and accord.”  

Colombia''s President Juan Manuel Santos declares three days of mourning after the death of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez, also known as Gabo (March 6, 1927 – April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist.

Marquez was born in a small town in Columbia, Aracataca.  He originally studied to become a journalist.  He began writing at the age of eighteen.  His first books were based on his life.

Today, he was known for his novels No One Writes to the Colonel (1961), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).  His books were mainly about satire, solitude, magic realism, realism, and violence.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in December 1982.  The reason was “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent''s life and conflicts.”

Marquez wrote his last book in 2004.  He retired in May 2008 because of his age and health.

Marquez was suffering Alzheimer''s disease since 2012.  He lived with his wife, Mercedes Barcha in Mexico City. Marquez died in Mexico City from pneumonia.  He was 87 years old.