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April 18, 2014

Novelist Gabriel García Márquez Dies, Author of "100 Years of Solitude" 
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The legendary novelist Gabriel García Márquez has died at the age of
87. He is widely regarded as one the century's greatest writers. In his
home country of Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos has declared a
day of mourning. García Márquez's masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of
Solitude," sold more than 50 million copies in 25 languages. In 1982, he
accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.

Gabriel García Márquez: "Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets,
warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we
have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has
been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This,
my friends, is the crux of our solitude."

We'll spend the hour honoring Gabriel García Márquez in his own words
and with the novelist Isabel Allende after headlines.

 

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