What is Gabriel García Márquez?
{{Infobox Writer | name = Gabriel García Márquez | image = Gabriel Garcia Marquez.jpg | imagesize = | caption = García Márquez in February 2002 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|3|6}} | birth_place = [[Aracataca]], [[Colombia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|4|17|1927|3|6}} | death_place = [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]] | occupation = [[novel]]ist, short-story writer, and [[journalist]]. | nationality = [[Colombia]]n | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = Magical Realism | debut_works = | signature = GabrielGarciaMarquezAutograph.jpg | website = | footnotes = }} {{nobelprize|Literature}} '''Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez''', also known as '''Gabo''' (March 6, <!--DO NOT CHANGE DATE OF BIRTH, 1927 IS CORRECT HE BECAME 80 YEARS OLD IN OF 2007-->1927<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/03/06/um/m-01375221.htm Distintas ciudades del mundo rinden homenaje a García Márquez en su 80 cumpleaños.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306222600/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/03/06/um/m-01375221.htm |date=2008-03-06 }} ''Clarin'' (2007-03-06). Retrieved on 2008-02-05. {{in lang|es}}</ref> &ndash; April 17, 2014) was a [[Colombia]]n [[novelist]], short-story writer, [[screenwriter]], and [[journalist]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1982. He was best known for his novels ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' (1967), ''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]]'' (1975) and ''[[Love in the Time of Cholera]]'' (1985). His books were mainly about [[satire]], [[solitude]], [[magic realism]], [[realism]], and [[violence]]. Márquez was sick with [[Alzheimer's disease]] after being diagnosed in 2012. He lived with his wife, Mercedes Barcha in [[Mexico City]] where he died from [[pneumonia]] in 2014 at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.latintimes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies-famed-colombian-author-and-nobel-laureate-dead-87-pneumonia-166280 | title=Gabriel García Márquez Dies: Famed Colombian Author And