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"Gabriel is doing well, fortunately. I think he will be with us for a while," his brother Jaime Garcia Marquez told AFP.
Garcia Marquez, perhaps best known for "A Hundred Years of Solitude," "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "No One Writes to the Colonel," won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1982.
It is only in the past few years that health woes have slowed him down. He is recovering from cancer, and has continued to live in Mexico City most of the year.
"He had a nice time. He had a quiet day at home and there was no party really. He did not have visits but did have a lot of calls," his assistant Monica Alonso said.
As a birthday treat, Garcia Marquez got a special gift this week: the start of sales of an electronic version of his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The release marks the author's fourth book published electronically.
"I do not know if it will be as successful as hoped but it is the goal," his literary agent Carmen Balcells told Caracol Radio on Monday.
This year also marks the 30th anniversary since Garcia Marquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" has already sold 30 million copies worldwide.
Garcia Marquez was born March 6, 1927 in the Colombian Caribbean town of Aracataca but has lived in Mexico for several decades.
Weakened by cancer, he did not resume writing after his latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," in 2004.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the saga of a troubled family of Macondo, an imaginary village, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has been translated into 35 languages but only now is appearing in a digital edition.
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Garcia Marquez, perhaps best known for "A Hundred Years of Solitude," "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "No One Writes to the Colonel," won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1982.
It is only in the past few years that health woes have slowed him down. He is recovering from cancer, and has continued to live in Mexico City most of the year.
"He had a nice time. He had a quiet day at home and there was no party really. He did not have visits but did have a lot of calls," his assistant Monica Alonso said.
As a birthday treat, Garcia Marquez got a special gift this week: the start of sales of an electronic version of his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The release marks the author's fourth book published electronically.
"I do not know if it will be as successful as hoped but it is the goal," his literary agent Carmen Balcells told Caracol Radio on Monday.
This year also marks the 30th anniversary since Garcia Marquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" has already sold 30 million copies worldwide.
Garcia Marquez was born March 6, 1927 in the Colombian Caribbean town of Aracataca but has lived in Mexico for several decades.
Weakened by cancer, he did not resume writing after his latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," in 2004.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the saga of a troubled family of Macondo, an imaginary village, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has been translated into 35 languages but only now is appearing in a digital edition.
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