Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 80 today · 2007-03-07 11:52
Colombia is marking the 80th birthday of its most famous writer, the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the BBC reported.
Cities and towns across Colombia are holding events – but the author, who now lives in Mexico, is not expected to set foot in the country.
Spain has already marked the occasion with a marathon reading of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
“He was born in Colombia, but all of us who speak Spanish have in him a referent of perfection and the creation of beauty,” Colombian Ambassador to Spain Noemi Sanin said in Madrid.
This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude and 25 years since Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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