Bogotá, Nov 24 (EFE) .- The Government of Colombia retain part of the legacy of the Nobel literature Gabriel García Márquez in a library specially dedicated to his work, told Efe the director of the National Library, Consuelo Gaitán.
“We are in contact with the family of Gabo because we intend to collect all his literary legacy in Colombia to be playing in a library dedicated to him,” said Gaitán who stressed that the Government is actively working on regaining his work.
According Gaitán, the Government, through the National Library, will bring together the work of García Márquez in a collection that run from publications or writings themselves up interviews with Nobel, although no date has been set for that goal.
The American newspaper The New York Times forward today that the personal archive of García Márquez, composed of manuscripts, notes, photos and correspondence, was sold by his family to the University of Texas at Austin .
The legacy of nobel, which will become part of the collection of Harry Ransom Center of the American university, “would have been in good hands” at the National Library, confessed Gaitán.
However, the director of the National Library to hold talks with the family of Gabo on behalf of the Government, explained that although Colombia showed interest “repeatedly” in this file, which coexist at the University of Texas with objects Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, respect the decision of the family.
“It’s very respectable family decision about their own cultural heritage,” Gaitan told Efe, who acknowledged that there was no public auction of the legacy which was also interested Mexico, a country in which García Márquez lived for decades and where he died at age 87 last April 17.
Regarding the statements Colombian Culture Minister Mariana Garces, who lamented that this collection does not stay in the country that gave birth to the writer, Gaitán said the government was his family came to get the file.
For his part CEO of Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Latin American Journalism (FNPI), Jaime Abello, told Efe that the legacy of Nobel sold by his family to the University of Texas “is in good hands” because “the Ransom Center It is one of the best places in the world to host the file “.
On Friday the Colombian government announced the winner of the Spanish American Short Story Prize Gabriel García Márquez, who created in 2013 as a tribute to Gabo and will add value to this genre which began in literature.
Gaitán also explained that there are other initiatives such as the bill currently before Congress to nationally recognize the work and life the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
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