Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ works outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. (via AP)
Colombian novelist and Nobel Laureate Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, or “Gabo”, died today at 87 in his Mexico City home.
The New York Times recalls:
In accepting his Nobel, Mr. García Márquez said: “Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, 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.”
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