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Bogota's International Book Fair opened its doors on Tuesday
with a special commemoration for the Colombian-born writer, who
passed away at his home in Mexico City in April last year, aged
87.
Widely-loved works including "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 when he
was honored for his novels and short stories "in which the
fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed
world of imagination."
That book tells the story of the Buendia family in the fictional
village of Macondo, which is based on the town of Aracataca
close to Colombia's Caribbean coast where Garcia Marquez was
born and raised.
Fair organizers have displayed the author's books and pictures
and brought the world of Macondo to life in a special exhibit.
"We are all Macondo. Macondo is this country. Macondo is the
Caribbean. Macondo is any place on this planet where people
identify with the dramas of the people of Macondo," said Piedad
Bonnet, organizer of the display.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos helped inaugurate the
fair, saying Gabriel Marquez was remembered "with passion and
tenderness".
Events run until May 4.
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Bogota; additional repoting
by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London)
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