My mother sent me this letter wirtten by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on his retiremeent due to illness. When today ends another year of my life would have passed, and most of that was beautiful and heartening about it has come from you my fellow bloggers. I may have been away for a while but I can't wait to get back to reading and being read. thank you and God bless! Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famous writer from Colombia, and Nobel Peace prize winner for literature, has retired from public life for... Sign in to see full entry.