Garcia Marquez Has Cancer Surgery

BOGOTA, Colombia — A cancerous tumor has been removed from the lung of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author of novels such as "100 Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera."

Garcia Marquez, 65, had a "localized lung tumor of low-grade malignancy," according to a communique Thursday from the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic of Bogota. It said the cancer probably was caused by his onetime heavy smoking habit.

The clinic said his prognosis was good but gave few details. RCN Radio quoted a doctor as saying the tumor was "not serious."

Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.