Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to Head Homage to Garcia Marquez E. Eduardo Castillo - The Associated Press
go to original April 21, 2014

Gabriel Garcia's hometown, which inspired his most famous works, continues to mourn the Nobel Lauriate's death. (Al Jazeera English)

MEXICO CITY – The ashes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez were being taken Monday to Mexico City’s majestic Palace of Fine Arts, where thousands of admiring readers were expected to pay tribute to the Colombian Nobel laureate considered the greatest Spanish-language writer in three centuries.

The presidents of Mexico and Colombia were expected at the late-afternoon ceremony four days after the death of the 87-year-old author. Garcia Marquez’s birthplace, the town of Aracataca on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, was planning a symbolic funeral. Colombia also planned a marathon reading this week of Garcia Marquez’s work, “No One Writes to the Colonel.”

Marquez lived in Mexico for decades and wrote some of his best-known works here, included the renowned “100 Years of Solitude.”

Mexican officials said Garcia Marquez’s ashes will be present, and some of the author’s favourite classical music will be performed, for the ceremony led by presidents Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico and Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia.

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