• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from the hand of King Carl Gustav of Sweden 10 December 1982 in Stockholm. Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, passed away at his home with his wife and two sons by his side, Mexico’s Televisa anchor Joaquin Lopez-Doriga said on Twitter, echoing reports in Mexican and Colombian newspapers. Bertil Ericson / AFP Photo / Scanpix Sweden
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from the hand of King Carl Gustav of Sweden 10 December 1982 in Stockholm. Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, passed away at his home with his wife and two sons by his side, Mexico’s Televisa anchor Joaquin Lopez-Doriga said on Twitter, echoing reports in Mexican and Colombian newspapers. Bertil Ericson / AFP Photo / Scanpix Sweden
  • A man reads a newspaper fronted with the news of the death of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Aracataca, the town were he was born in Colombia’s Caribbean coast on April 18, 2014. Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City on Thursday April 17. Ricardo Mazalan / AP photo
    A man reads a newspaper fronted with the news of the death of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Aracataca, the town were he was born in Colombia’s Caribbean coast on April 18, 2014. Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City on Thursday April 17. Ricardo Mazalan / AP photo
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez leans out of the window of the train upon arrival at his hometown Aracataca, Colombia on May 30, 2007. Alejandra Vega / AFP photo
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez leans out of the window of the train upon arrival at his hometown Aracataca, Colombia on May 30, 2007. Alejandra Vega / AFP photo
  • A visitor takes a photo of the replica of the room of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the museum set at the house were he was born in Aracataca, Colombia, on April 18, 2014. Ricardo Mazalan / AP photo
    A visitor takes a photo of the replica of the room of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the museum set at the house were he was born in Aracataca, Colombia, on April 18, 2014. Ricardo Mazalan / AP photo
  • A boy waters plants in the yard of a restaurant in the Colombian village of Aracataca. Yellow butterflies make an apperance in the book. Eitan Abramovich / AFP photo
    A boy waters plants in the yard of a restaurant in the Colombian village of Aracataca. Yellow butterflies make an apperance in the book. Eitan Abramovich / AFP photo
  • Journalists gather in front of the Colombian 1982 Literature Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s home in Mexico City on April 8, 2014. Alfredo Estrella / AFP photo
    Journalists gather in front of the Colombian 1982 Literature Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s home in Mexico City on April 8, 2014. Alfredo Estrella / AFP photo

In pictures: Colombian hometown mourns Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Olga Camacho

April 20, 2014

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Aracataca, Columbia mourns and shares memories of former Nobel Literature prize-winning writer and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez passed away on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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