COLOMBIA-MEXICO-LITERATURE-GARCIA MARQUEZ-DEATH

COLOMBIA-MEXICO-LITERATURE-GARCIA MARQUEZ-DEATH

Students participate in a symbolic funeral in honour of late Colombian Literature Nobel laurete Gabriel Garcia Marquez, outside his childhood house in Aracataca, Magdalena Province, Colombia, on April 21, 2014. Aracataca bids farewell Monday to its son with a tribute filled with the late Nobel winner’s favorite music and roses. Garcia Marquez, who died in Mexico City on April 17 aged 87, will be eulogized in the domed Bellas Artes Palace, a cultural centre where Mexico pays tributes to its late artistic icons. AFP PHOTO/Joaquin Sarmiento