Gabriel Garcia Marquez was hospitalized

The renowned Columbian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, laureated with the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, was hospitalized due to dehydration and UTI (urinary infection), on the 31st of March.

The mexican minister of Health announced on Thursday that the author is reacting well to treatment, according to Reuters.

The writer was hospitalized in Ciudad de Mexico and he is taking treatment under antibiotics, according to the minister's bulletin.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a 87 years old journalist and writer, who lives in Ciudad de Mexico. He hasn't shown up in the public spotlight for the past years.

His son Gonzalo Garcia said that his father wasn't taken into intensive therapy and the family is with him.

Mr. Gabriel's brother, Jaime Garcia Marquez, said back in 2012 that the writer suffers from dementia, but this information was not confirmed officially.

One of his masterpieces, the novel since 1967 "One Hundred Years of Solitude", reveals the story of a family who can no longer take care of the grandfather, who was senile.

"It's a disease which affects our family", Jaime Garcia Marquez said back then.

Born on the 6th of March 1927, in Columbian place Aracataca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez lives in Mexico, for several decades already and he lost weight, due to cancer. Since then, he didn't write any other novels, his latest one was "Memoria de mis putas tristes" (The memory of my sad whores), published back in 2004.