(17 Apr 2014)
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at 87
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AP Television
Mexico City - 6 March 2014
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1. Mid of Nobel Prize laureate author Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaving his Mexico City home to greet reporters gathered to celebrate his 87th birthday
2. Various of Marquez shaking reporters' hands, they start singing "Las Mananitas", a traditional Mexican song for birthdays, AUDIO: singing
3. Close of reporter giving Marquez yellow flowers (his favourite) and hugging him
4. Pull out of Marquez clapping
5. Mid of Marquez going back into home, zoom in
Havana, Cuba - 25 January 1998
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6. Wide of Marquez standing next to then Cuban leader Fidel Castro during open-air mass of Pope John Paul II
STORYLINE:
On April 17th 2014 the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez died aged 87.
Garcia Marquez's magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality.
Marquez died at home in Mexico City around midday on Thursday, according to people close to his family.
Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
His flamboyant and melancholy works outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible.
The epic 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.
He became the best-known practitioner of "magical realism," a blending of fantastic elements into portrayals of daily life that made the extraordinary seem almost routine.
He accepted the Nobel prize for Literature in 1982.
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