Yesterday, the famous Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez died at the age of 87 years.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced three days of mourning in the country in connection with the death of the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon sent a telegram of condolences over the great loss - the death of the world-famous writer and Nobel laureate, literary classic of our time - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Head of State noted that the works of the writer curiously combine reality and fantasy. They link the past, present and future.

The essence of a planetary and universal philosophy of Marquez was to constantly remind human beings of their mission on the Earth, about humanism and generosity, moral purity, of the need to live in peace and harmony.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the famous Colombian writer and novelist, journalist, publisher and politician, Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature in 1982. The representative of "magical realism" and coryphaeus of the Latin American and world prose of the XX century. Author of the novels "The Autumn of the Patriarch", "Love in the Time of Cholera", the worldwide famous "One Hundred Years of Solitude", novellas "No One Writes to the Colonel", "The General in his Labyrinth" and many other works.