Flowers and the book “Memorias de mis putas tristes” (Memories of My Melancholy Whores) written by Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez are placed outside Marquez’s in Mexico

Flowers and the book “Memorias de mis putas tristes” (Memories of My Melancholy Whores) written by Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez are placed outside his home in Mexico City April 17, 2014. Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87. Garcia Marquez died at his home in Mexico City, a source close to his family said. Known affectionately to friends and fans as “Gabo”, Garcia Marquez was Latin America’s best-known author and most beloved author and his books have sold in the tens of millions. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (MEXICO – Tags: SOCIETY OBITUARY)