Sunday Read: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Battles Senile Dementia, No Longer Able to Write
According to an article in The Guardian, Colombian author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is battling senile dementia and no longer able to write, following lifesaving treatment for lymphatic cancer.
While rumours that Márquez would never write again have been lingering since his novella Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores was published to mixed reviews in 2004, this news comes from a more official source, his brother, Jaime GarcÃa Márquez. Jaime revealed that the cancer treatment has accelerated Gabriel’s mental decline and that “inaccurate speculation” about his brother’s condition have “moved to speak openly”.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, Márquez is often regarded as having pioneered magical realism with such acclaimed novels as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has revealed.
Jaime GarcÃa Márquez told students in Cartagena, Colombia, that his older brother, affectionately know as Gabo, calls him on the telephone to ask basic questions.
“He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I’m losing him,” he said.
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