Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, hospitalised

April 04, 2014 02:44

Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been hospitalised in Mexico City, federal health officials said today.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release the information.

They declined to specify the cause of his illness, saying Garcia Marquez's family had asked for details to remain private.

The 87-year-old Nobel laureate is by many accounts the Spanish language's most popular writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century.

The extraordinary literary celebrity he attained in life drew comparisons with Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. He has lived in Mexico City for more than 30 years.

His epic, hallucinatory novel One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold some 50 million copies in more than 25 languages, its 1967 publication a milestone in a two-decade-long Latin American literature boom.

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