Memories and the ‘magical realism’ of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 6 Photos . Updated: 18 Apr 2014, 03:47 PM IST Livemint Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died on Thursday aged 87 in Mexico city. Some images of the Colombian author. 1/6Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez celebrates the 20th anniversary of his novel 100 Years of Solitude in Bogota in this June, 1987 file photo. The Colombian author died on 17 April at his home in Mexico City. Reuters 2/6Marquez speaks with his wife Mercedes upon their arrival in Aracataca in this May 30, 2007 file photo. Marquez’s beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map. Reuters 3/6Marquez with a leftist rebel during the peace talks in San Vicente del Caguan in this January 7, 1999 file photo. Known affectionately to friends and fans as “Gabo”, he is arguably Latin America’s best-known author and his books have sold in the tens of millions. Reuters 4/6Marquez (R) chats with Cuban President Fidel Castro in this March 4, 2000 file photo. Marquez’s masterpiece was One Hundred Years of Solitude, a dynastic epic that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Reuters 5/6In this 8 December 1982 file photo, Marquez shows his Nobel Prize medal in Stockholm. Other classics from Marquez included Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. AP 6/6Marquez greets people on his 87th birthday outside his house in Mexico City in this 6 March 2014 file photo. That was his last public appearance. Marquez is survived by Mercedes Barcha, his wife, and by two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. Reuters