Nobel prize-winning Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in Mexico on Thursday at the age of 87, reports BBC.
Marquez was recently hospitalised for his lung and urinary tract infection, but for 'fragile health' he was sent home last week.
He was considered one of the greatest Spanish novelists, best known for his Nobel prize-winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Written in 1967, the novel showed a unique blending of the marvelous and the mundane and sold more 30 million copies.
For pioneering magic realism, Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.
Born in Colombia, Marquez for the last 30 years adopted Mexico City as his home, where he died.
At his death, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos tweeted on his Twitter to pay tribute thus, "One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time."
US president Barack Obama said the world had "lost one of its greatest visionary writers, and one of my favourites from the time I was young".
Former US president Bill Clinton also said, "I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty."
The Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called the novel "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote", the 17th-century masterpiece by Spain's Miguel de Cervantes.
For his friendship with Cuban president Fidel Castro, Marquez courted controversy too. But he insisted his friendship was based on literature.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's other works include Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and The General in His Labyrinth.
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