Mexico: according to brother, Gabriel Garcia Marquez suffering from dementia

Jaime García Márquez, a civil engineer, told a group of students at a lecture in the Colombian city of Cartagena that his elder brother often telephones him to ask basic questions. “He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I’m losing him,” he said. The author, who has lived in Mexico City since 1961, is one of the most influential and highly-acclaimed living writers. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and Carlos Fuentes, the late Mexican writer, described him as “the most popular and perhaps the best writer in Spanish since Cervantes”. Read Article http://www.telegraph.co.uk