(CNN Spanish) - Mercedes Raquel Barcha Pardo, widow of the writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), Gabriel García Márquez, died this Saturday in Mexico City at the age of 87, the Gabo Foundation reported in a statement .
Barcha Pardo was the Foundation's honorary president since June 2014, a position she assumed two months after García Márquez's death, the organization said.
The 1982 Colombian Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel García Márquez (left), sitting in the carriage with his wife Mercedes Barcha, smiles as he arrives in his hometown of Aracataca by train on May 30, 2007. ALEJANDRA VEGA / AFP via Getty Images
The Foundation did not provide details about the death of Barcha Pardo, but assures that "unconditionally and quietly, she always remained by the side of the writer, living with him all the adventures of the literary profession."
Barcha and García Márquez have been married since 1958.
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