Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands outside his house on his 87th birthday in Mexico City

Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands outside his house on his 87th birthday in Mexico City

Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands outside his house on his 87th birthday in Mexico City March 6, 2014. Nobel prize-winning author Marquez has been hospitalized in Mexico City since March 31 for dehydration and a lung and urinary infection but has responded well to treatment, Mexico’s health ministry said on April 3, 2014. The author’s discharge from hospital will be evaluated once he completes treatment with antibiotics, the ministry said in a release. Picture taken March 6, 2014. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (MEXICO – Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT HEALTH)