Cuban then President Fidel Castro and Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (L) attend the inauguration of the first Cuban national Olympic games in Havana's Revolution Square in this November 26, 2002 file photo. 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 April 17, 2014. He was 87. Known affectionately to friends and fans as "Gabo", he is arguably Latin America's best-known author and his books have sold in the tens of millions. [Photo/Agencies]