Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at 87

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the world-renowned Colombian novelist, has died at age 87. The Associated Press broke the story via its Twitter feed around 3 p.m. today. A 1982 Nobel laureate, Marquez was best known for a string of expansive character-rich novels, that included "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Autumn of the Patriarch," and "Love in the Time of Cholera." A pioneer of the literary movement known as magic realism, Marquez, who began his career as a journalist, first drew international attention in the 1960s. His work was often grouped with that of other Spanish language writers (Isabel Allende, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso) who captured the baroque complications of Latin American life in tales suffused with fabulist elements.

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