Gabriel García Márquez's writing career ended by dementia

[morningfog]

The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has revealed.

Jaime García Márquez told students in Cartagena, Colombia, that his older brother, affectionately know as Gabo, calls him on the telephone to ask basic questions.

"He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," he said.

The 85-year-old Colombian writer won the Nobel prize in 1982 and is best known for novels including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia#start-of-comments

This breaks my heart. Thank you for all the magic.

[scarletwoman]

1. That is heartbreaking news.

How cruel, how tragic!

[highplainsdem]

2. Tragic.

[likesmountains 52]

3. So sad..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. What a terrible loss for him, and all of us...

He was a great writer.

[Arctic Dave]

5. One my favorite authors.

[robinlynne]

6. He is one of the great writers of this world.

[struggle4progress]

7. Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía

había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo ...

A great, great writer

[flamingdem]

8. Ay, dios que triste

Lo peor para un autor, pero bueno, vivia y escribia bien.