Worker arranges a banner with the picture of late Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Garcia Marquez at the Bellas Artes palace in Mexico City

A worker arranges a banner with the picture of late Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Bellas Artes palace in Mexico City April 20, 2014. Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87. Marquez died at his home in Mexico City, where he had returned from hospital last week after a bout of pneumonia. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO – Tags: SOCIETY OBITUARY)