# Gabriel Garcia Marquez reported dead at 87 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366 "2014-04-17T21:25:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/1 "2014-04-17T21:25:25Z")
Rumor has it that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. Chalk it up as another “he was still alive?” death. Still, a truly great writer and an early inspiration for me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/2 "2014-04-17T21:29:10Z")
Bummer. I’ve always loved his work. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/3 "2014-04-17T21:34:06Z")
Guess he’s ready for a lot more solitude. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/4 "2014-04-17T21:35:08Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Guess he’s ready for a lot more solitude. That’s just it. He may come back if he decides he cannot bear the solitude of death. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/5 "2014-04-17T21:38:33Z")
Was it cholera? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/6 "2014-04-17T21:40:40Z")
Now I guess he’ll wander around the backyard all the time, until he slowly gets forgotten. Or maybe he’ll drag around a bag of his own bones. Or float off among a three-year plague of butterflies. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/7 "2014-04-17T21:40:52Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Rumor has it that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. Confirmed by [several](http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/la-et-jc-gabriel-garcia-marquez-nobel-prize-winning-author-dies-20140405,0,5442957.story) [media](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27073911) [sources](http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/02/06/actualidad/1391715274_928706.html) in the last hour. A few days ago, there were reports of his health being in a fragile state. RIP ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/8 "2014-04-17T22:09:08Z")
I recently read _[In Evil Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Evil_Hour)_ and plan to read more of his work because I loved that book. I heard this news just a couple of hours ago on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/9 "2014-04-17T22:12:04Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Chalk it up as another “he was still alive?” death. A death foretold? ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/10 "2014-04-17T22:27:19Z")
RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hope you didn’t pass away in a room that smelled of boiled cauliflower.\* - “…in the room that smelled of boiled cauliflower where Rocamadour was to die” ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/11 "2014-04-18T01:46:05Z")
One hundred years of Solitude is one of my favorite books. Amazing writer ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/12 "2014-04-18T16:48:44Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > One hundred years of Solitude is one of my favorite books. Amazing writer Mine too. Many people dislike the book, but I was fortunate. As an undergrad, I took a course in Spanish literature that was taught in English. The prof was a Colombia expert and a huge fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. We read _One Hundred Years of Solitude_, and the prof did an almost page-by-page analysis. He told us lots of little in jokes and esoterica that would not be apparent to your average Joe, or at least not to your average non-Colombian. It was really neat. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-garcia-marquez-reported-dead-at-87/686366/13 "2024-03-08T01:44:50Z")
Even though he has been dead 10 years a new novel with the English language title Until August is coming out March 12: **Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s sons publish unfinished novel that the late author wanted ‘destroyed’** [https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/style/gabriel-garcia-marquez-until-august/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/style/gabriel-garcia-marquez-until-august/index.html) A review: > **[Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – a ‘lost’ last novel](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/06/until-august-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez-review-a-lost-last-novel)** > > This slight work by the Latin American master explores sex, betrayal and damaging secrets through the story of a woman’s one-night stands