World Reacts to Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
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"A thousand years of loneliness and sadness for the death of the
greatest Colombian of all time!" — Colombia President Juan Manuel
Santos.
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"With the passing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the world has lost one of
its greatest visionary writers - and one of my favorites from the time I
was young ... I offer my thoughts to his family and friends, whom I
hope take solace in the fact that Gabo's work will live on for
generations to come." — U.S. President Barack Obama.
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"A great man has died, one whose works gave the literature of our
language great reach and prestige," Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa,
who had once famously feuded with Garcia Marquez.
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"I owe him the impulse and the freedom to plunge into literature. In his
books I found my own family, my country, the people I have known all my
life, the color, the rhythm, and the abundance of my continent." —
Chilean writer Isabel Allende
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"One would really have to go back to Dickens to find a writer of the
highest literary quality who commanded such extraordinary power over
whole populations." — British novelist Ian McEwan, to the BBC.
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"On behalf of Mexico, I express my sadness for the death of one the
greatest writers of our time: Gabriel Garcia Marquez." — Mexican
President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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"From the time I read 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' more than 40 years
ago, I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, clarity of
thought, and emotional honesty ... I was honored to be his friend and
to know his great heart and brilliant mind for more than 20 years." —
former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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"His unique characters and exuberant Latin America will remain marked in
the hearts and memories of his millions of readers." — Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff
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"He is like the Mandela of literature because of the impact that he has
had on readers all over the world. His influence is universal, and that
is a very rare thing." — Cristobal Pera, editorial director of Penguin
Random House in Mexico.
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"Gabo's death is a loss for Colombia and for the entire world. His work
will safeguard his memory." — Colombia's largest rebel group, The
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, said in a tweet.
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"He had the capacity to see stories that many of us have in front of us
and don't even notice. He was unique in that." — Nicaraguan writer
Sergio Ramirez Mercado.
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"In recent times it wasn't easy to communicate with him, although he
understood and continued the conversation. He was always loving and
generous and extraordinarily clever." — Rafael Tovar y de Teresa,
director of Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts.
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"Gabo has left us and we will have years of solitude. But his works and
his love for the motherland remain. Farewell until the victory, dear
Gabo." — Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.
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"If you've read him, you know that he's not really gone. He is in an
afterlife of his own creation, his own Macondo." — Edwidge Danticat, a
Haitian-American author.
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"Cuba suffers from this death, as do all readers of a writer who is an icon." — Miguel Barnet, Cuban author and essayist.
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