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Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez suffering from dementia | Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s brother has revealed that the 1982
Nobel Prize winner for Literature
is suffering from dementia. Jaime Garcia Marquez told students at a lecture in
the city of Cartagena that his brother, who is 85, phones him frequently to ask
basic questions. “He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel
like I’m losing him,” the BBC quoted him as saying. He is the first family member
to speak publicly about the problem. There have been rumours about Marquez’ memory
problems. Invited to talk about his relationship with Gabo, as the writer is affectionately known
in Colombia, his younger brother Jaime said he could not hold back from talking about his
illness anymore. “He is doing well physically, but he has been
suffering from dementia for a long time. “He still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm
that he has always had,” he said. The 1967 masterpiece of magic realism, ‘One
Hundred Years of Solitude,’ begins with the story of a family unable to care for
their senile grandfather. “It is a disease that runs in the family,” said Jaime
Garcia Marquez. Gabriel Garcia Marquez currently lives in Mexico and has not made
many public appearances in recent years. According to his brother, the author
of ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ has stopped writing altogether.
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