MEXICO CITY: Colombia's Nobel-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 87-year-old author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” was hospitalised Thursday for undisclosed reasons in Mexico City, a health ministry official said.

“The family has asked us not to disclose information about his state of health,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Garcia Marquez, who made Mexico City his home three decades ago, was taken to the National Medical Science and Nutrition Institute in the south of the capital.

Mexican media reported that Garcia Marquez was hospitalised with pneumonia.

El Universal said the writer was taken there at dawn.

Garcia Marquez made his last public appearance on March 6 when he got out of this house to greet journalists who visited him for his 87th birthday.

The author smiled, accepted gifts and posed for photographs, but he did not speak to reporters.