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1927 – 2014Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014)Died 17 April 2014, aged 87Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude," died in Mexico City. He was the leading figure of the Latin American magical realism literary movement. His works remain among the most widely read in world literature.