Mexico city: Famous Colombian Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez who had won the Nobel prize for his write-up “One Hundred Years of Solitude” passed away at the age of 87. This creative writing established him as a giant of 20th-century literature. His former editor Cristobal Pera was confirmed his death at Random House. Garcia Marquez, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1982. Majority of his writings were fictions rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape. All his creations have the characteristic feature of universal appeal. His books have translated into dozens of languages globally. He was one among the selected band of canonical writers. Other important personalities of this group are Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway whose creations have embraced by critics as well as mass audience. In his novels and stories, storms blow for years, flowers drift from the skies, dictators survive for centuries, priests get up, and corpses fail to decompose. And, more believably, lovers elicit their passion after a half century apart. He was diagnosed as suffering from lymphatic cancer in 1999 After that Garcia Marquez devoted most of his subsequent writing for his autobiography. During that time-frame he had also written one novel “Memories of My Melancholy Whores,” which said the love affair between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old prostitute. This novel was published in 2004. He is survived by his wife Mercedes and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

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