/ Source: Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was hospitalized on Thursday in Mexico City, two officials at the health ministry said on condition on anonymity.
Garcia Marquez, whose career spanned journalism to fantastical novels that defined the genre of magical realism, lives in Mexico City. Local media said the 87-year-old was hospitalized for pneumonia.
(Reporting by Alexandra Alper and Anahi Ramos; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)