Colombian novelist Garcia Marquez dies age 87

Updated: 2014-04-18 04:36

(Agencies)

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MEXICO CITY - Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died in Mexico City at the age of 87, Mexican newspapers reported on Thursday.

The death of the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was also confirmed by Fernanda Familiar, a spokeswoman for the family, on her Twitter account.

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