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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87.
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His death was confirmed by Cristobal Pera, his former editor at Random House.
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Garcia Marquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers - Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them - who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience.
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"Each new work of his is received by expectant critics and readers as an event of world importance," the Swedish Academy of Letters said in awarding him the Nobel.
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Garcia Marquez was considered the supreme exponent, if not the creator, of the literary genre known as magic realism, in which the miraculous and the real converge. In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate, and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half century apart.
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