On April 17, 2014 (March 18, 2014 lunar calendar), the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Márquez passed away and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. García Márquez (photographed on April 15, 1989 in Havana, the capital of Cuba) On the afternoon of April 17, 2014 (early morning of the 18th Beijing time), the famous Colombian writer and 1982 Nobel Prize winner García Márquez died of illness in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, at the age of 87. Colombian President Manuel Santos said on his personal Weibo that day that Márquez is the greatest Colombian in history, and a great man will never die. Mexican President Pen ̃ a Nieto said on the same day that he expressed his condolences and regret in the name of the country for the death of the greatest writer of today, and believes that Márquez has made Latin America's magical realism literature available to the world. On the 31st of last month, Márquez was hospitalized for pneumonia and related diseases, and on the 8th of this month, he was discharged from the hospital and went home for conservative treatment. On Monday, his condition deteriorated again. Márquez was born in Colombia on March 6, 1927, and moved to Mexico in 1961 to continue his work in literature, journalism and film. Márquez is a representative figure of magical realism literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. His main masterpieces include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "A Pre-publicized Mur "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the most widely circulated of all Márquez's works. Extended reading: Márquez's life Extended reading: Márquez's life Extended reading: Márquez's life On March 6, 1927, Márquez was born in the small town of Aracataca, Colombia. Until the age of 8, Márquez lived with his maternal grandfather, who was a colonel and participated in the Colombian Civil War twice. His grandmother was a hard-working peasant woman who was very familiar with the traditional myths of Latin America. In 1940, Márquez moved to the capital Bogota. In 1947, he entered the University of Bogota to study law and began to write literature. During his university years, Márquez read the poetry of the Spanish Golden Age voraciously, which laid a solid foundation for his later literary creation. In 1948, Márquez dropped out of school in the middle of the Colombian Civil War, and soon after he entered the newspaper industry as a reporter for the Observer. In 1955, he was forced to leave Colombia after serializing articles exposing a government-glorified shipwreck and became the European correspondent for the Observer. He published his first novel, "Dead Leaves" that year. It took him seven years to find someone willing to publish it. Márquez once wrote that "of all his works (up to 1973)," Dead Leaves "was his favorite because he found it the most sincere and natural." In 1958, Márquez married and had his first son the following year. In 1960, Márquez was a reporter for the Latin News Agency of Cuba. From 1961 to 1967, he moved to Mexico, where he worked in literature, journalism, and film. After that, he lived mainly in Mexico and Europe, where he continued his literary writing. In 1975, he held a literary strike to protest the coup d'état in Chile and put pen to paper for five years. In 1982, Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature and served as the chairperson of the French-Spanish Cultural Exchange Committee. In the same year, he returned to his home country due to the Colombian earthquake. In 1999, Márquez suffered from lymphoma, and his literary output has since declined sharply. It is reported that due to the negative influence of family genetics and cancer chemotherapy, Márquez has suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and his writing ability has been severely affected. On April 17, 2014, Márquez died Roots Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the impoverished town of Aracataca in northern Colombia and raised by his grandparents. He once described his childhood as the root of all his writing. His grandfather, a liberal activist and veteran of two civil wars, was the young Márquez's political enlightenment. From his grandmother, who quietly told stories of dead ancestors, ghosts and ghosts dancing around the house, Márquez heard many myths and folklore. These became the nourishment for his greatest novels of all time. Márquez attended a Catholic Jesuit college where he specialized in law, but soon dropped out to become a journalist. In 1954, he was sent to Rome by a newspaper, and he has lived almost abroad ever since. Márquez lived in Paris, Venezuela, and finally Mexico City. Even as his novels grew in popularity, he continued to work as a journalist. Locked in his room to write "One Hundred Years of Solitude," smoking six packs of cigarettes a day and heavily influenced by the work of William Faulkner, Márquez completed his first novel at the age of 23, but it took him seven years to find a publisher. "Storm of Leaves" and three subsequent novels received critical acclaim from the literary world, but were not as widely known as his subsequent works. In 1965, while driving to Acapulco, he was inspired by the first chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude. He turned around and went home, locked himself in his room, with six packs of cigarettes a day. Eighteen months later, he reappeared to find that the family was in debt of $12,000. Fortunately, he had 1,300 pages of the manuscript of his best-selling book. Márquez had vowed not to publish books in China. In the 1980s, especially after García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, a series of his works were published by many publishers in our country without the authorization of the author. Among them, the novels that are famous in the world literary world, such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "The Colonel Who No One Writes to Him", there are many editions in the market. Chinese writers, and even students of Chinese literature at universities, all called it "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "magical realism," "literary explosion," and its impact is evident. In 1990, Márquez visited Beijing and Shanghai, found his pirated books everywhere in bookstores, and he said harshly that "China will not be authorized to publish my works, especially" One Hundred Years of Solitude ", for 150 years after his death. For nearly 30 years, the Chinese publishing industry has been working hard to obtain a formal license from Márquez, so some experts say that the official publication of" One Hundred Years of Solitude "in China is no less than the Latin American" literary explosion "that shocked the world literary world that year.