Dementia Torments Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brother of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has disclosed that the 1982 Nobel Prize winner for Literature is stricken with dementia.

Jaime Garcia Marquez told students at a lecture in the city of Cartagena that his brother, who is 85, phones him frequently to ask basic questions.

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"He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," the BBC quoted him as saying.

He is the first family member to speak publicly about the problem.

There have been rumours about Marquez' memory problems.

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Invited to talk about his relationship with Gabo, as the writer is affectionately known in Colombia, his younger brother Jaime said he could not hold back from talking about his illness anymore.

"He is doing well physically, but he has been suffering from dementia for a long time.

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"He still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm that he has always had," he said.

The 1967 masterpiece of magic realism, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' begins with the story of a family unable to care for their senile grandfather.

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"It is a disease that runs in the family," said Jaime Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez currently lives in Mexico and has not made many public appearances in recent years.

According to his brother, the author of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' has stopped writing altogether.

Source-ANI