Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who unleashed the worldwide boom in Spanish language literature and magical realism with his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, died at the age of 87. He had been admitted to hospital in Mexico City on 3 April with pneumonia. Matching commercial success with critical acclaim, García Márquez became a standard-bearer for Latin American letters,
RIP Doris Lessing, one of science fiction's most indispensible authors
