Obama regrets the loss of Gabo, One of the greatest visionaries
The U.S. president, Barack Obama, today deplored the death of Gabriel García Márquez, who he said is one of his favorite writers and who considered as one of the "greatest visionaries."
"" With the death of the author Gabriel García Márquez, the world has lost one of the most grand "
and most visionary writers, one of my favorites since I was young," Obama said in a statement released shortly after learning of the death of Nobel prize Literature at his home in Mexico City at age 87.
U.S. President recalled that in his note that García Márquez was known by the affectionate nickname of "Gabo", recalled that he had the "privilege" of meeting the writer.
The famous novelist died at his home where he returned after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
The meeting took place in April 2009 in Mexico City, during a dinner hosted in honor of Obama by Mexican president Felipe Calderon now.
There, Garcia Marquez gave the U.S. president a signed copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "a defining classic of our time" that still "Treasures", he said.
"As a proud Colombian and representative and voice of the people of the Americas, and as a master of the genre of 'magical realism' has motivated many people even take pen and write well," Obama said of García Márquez.
A journey through the life of the Colombian writer from its inception until his departure.
The
President expressed his condolences to his family and friends as well
as their desire to "take comfort in the fact that the work of 'Gabo'
live for generations to come."
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