One hundred years of solitude continues
He would have been just a month over 89 today. But he died about two years ago, leaving the world of literature poorer. True, he hadn't written anything in the last 10 years of his life, but so long as he was alive we could expect another masterpiece at any time.
Although his first book (a novella) took shape more than six decades ago, he had to wait about a dozen years before seeing his literary fortunes finally smile. Along with the literary giant Jorge Luis Borges and the Mexican magician Juan Rulfo, he changed the landscape of Latin American, nay world, literature.
More than a decade after his path-breaking novel, he was honored with the highest literary prize in the world. And by the time he walked up to receive it, he was prepared to tell his and Latin America's story in yet another novel way.
