Colombian author of bestselling works such as 100 Years of Solitude, hospitalised for infection and dehydration
Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez was hospitalised on Thursday in Mexico City, two officials at the health ministry told Reuters on condition on anonymity.
García Márquez, whose career spans journalism to the fantastical novels that inspired the genre of magical realism, lives in Mexico City. The 87-year-old Nobel laureate entered the hospital Monday suffering from the infection and from dehydration, Mexico's Secretary of Health said in a written statement.
"The patient has responded to treatment. Once he's completed his course of antibiotics his discharge from the hospital will be evaluated," the statement said.
The author's son Gonzalo said there had been no medical emergency and he expected his father to leave the hospital early next week."He went to a normal room," the son said. "He was never in the emergency room."
He was feted before the press on his birthday last month by friends and well-wishers who brought him cake and flowers outside his home in an exclusive neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. He did not speak at the event.
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García Márquez, whose career spans journalism to the fantastical novels that inspired the genre of magical realism, lives in Mexico City. The 87-year-old Nobel laureate entered the hospital Monday suffering from the infection and from dehydration, Mexico's Secretary of Health said in a written statement.
"The patient has responded to treatment. Once he's completed his course of antibiotics his discharge from the hospital will be evaluated," the statement said.
The author's son Gonzalo said there had been no medical emergency and he expected his father to leave the hospital early next week."He went to a normal room," the son said. "He was never in the emergency room."
He was feted before the press on his birthday last month by friends and well-wishers who brought him cake and flowers outside his home in an exclusive neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. He did not speak at the event.
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