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Gabriel García Márquez, one of the world's novelists, has died from a lung at his home in Mexico. He was 87. The Colombian won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and other top . Colombia's government announced three days of national . It said García Márquez was, "a writer who changed the of his ". His book ''Love in the Time of Cholera" is the best selling in Spanish. He wrote many more . Critics say he is one of the most important writers ever. He helped develop a style of writing called "magical ".

Barack Obama paid a to Márquez. He said: "The world has lost one of its greatest writers." Bill Clinton said: "I was always amazed by his gifts of imagination…He captured the and joy of our humanity". García Márquez said he was a from a young age, saying: "I have been told by the family that I started recounting , stories and so on, almost since I was born - ever since I could speak." Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa said: "His novels will survive and will continue to find readers ."

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