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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 78-year-old Colombian Nobel Prize winning author, has revealed that he is to give up his writing career.
The author stated in an interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia: "I have stopped writing. Last year was the first in my life in which I haven't written even a line. Garcia Marquez's last novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in 2004. The author is most well known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1982. The author is battling against lymph cancer, according to The Times.
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