Her origins are Egyptian .. The death of the wife of the famous novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The widow of the famous Colombian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez, died on Sunday at the age of 87.
Mexican Culture Minister Alejandra Frausto said in a post on her Twitter account: I received with great sadness the news of the death of Mercedes Barca.
Colombian media reported that Mercedes-Barca was suffering from respiratory problems and that she was living in the capital, Mexico City.
Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and was born in Aracataca, Colombia in 1927, died in 2014 in Mexico City.
Colombian President Ivan Duque expressed his condolences to the family. "Today, Mercedes Barca, who was the love of the life of our Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and his companion, passed away without conditions," he wrote, stressing Colombia's "solidarity" with their family.
García Márquez and Mercedes Barca were married in 1958 and lived together until the writer's death.
Mercedes Barcha, who was born to Egyptian immigrants, was born and lived in Magangui, Colombia, where her father owned a pharmacy. García Márquez knew her from childhood, when he traveled with his father to sell medicine from village to village.