*Administration of Barack Obama, 2014 *

**Statement on the Death of Gabriel García Márquez **

*April 17, 2014 *

With the passing of Gabriel García Márquez, the world has lost one of its greatest visionary writers and one of my favorites from the time I was young. Affectionately known as Gabo to millions of his fans, he first won international recognition with his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude." I once had the privilege to meet him in Mexico, where he presented me with an inscribed copy that I cherish to this day. As a proud Colombian, a representative and voice for the people of the Americas, and as a master of the magic realism genre, he has inspired so many others, sometimes even to pick up the pen themselves. 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.

*Categories:* Statements by the President : Deaths :: Márquez, Gabriel García*.*

*Names:* Márquez, Gabriel García*.*

*Subjects:* Deaths : Márquez, Gabriel García.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201400273.