The news of the death of the famous South American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez affected many Iranians who loved him because of his books. His popularity in Iran, however, is not simply due to his magical realism, but also has to do with politics.
Almost all of Garcia Marquez's famous novels are known in Iran. The famous Iranian translator Bahman Farzaneh introduced the king of Colombian literature to Iranian society nearly 40 years ago with "One Hundred Years of Solitude."