Presidents and fellow writers have been paying tribute to Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who has died in Mexico aged 87.
The author was  one of the greatest Spanish-language writers, best known for his masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and US President Barack Obama also praised his writings .
Mr Obama said the world had “lost one of its greatest visionary writers”.
While, Mr Santos tweeted “A thousand years of solitude and sadness because of the death of the greatest Colombian of all time! Such giants never die,”  to pay tribute to Garcia Marquez.
Bill Clinton said Garcia Marquez had “captured the pain and joy of our common humanity”
Garcia Marquez had been ill and he was released from hospital in Mexico City last week following a lung and urinary tract infection, but was said to be “very weak” because of his age.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
“A great artist is gone, but his grand art remains with us. Most authors are only shadows, but Gabriel Garcia Marquez belonged to those who cast a shadow, and he will continue to do so long after his death,” quoted Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Nobel Prize-awarding Swedish Academy.
With his books, Marquez brought Latin America’s charm and teaming contradictions to life in the minds of millions of people.
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