The ashes of the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize for Literature 1982, will rest from December 12 in the inner courtyard of the Cloister of Mercy in Cartagena.
So you decided your wife Mercedes Barcha; and his sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo Garcia. The announcement was made yesterday morning the governor of Bolivar, Juan Carlos Gossaín Rognini.
“The relationship between the writer and Cartagena had the characteristic of a permanent coming and going, and they said the same Gabo. Here always he had a place to come and visit his parents, his brothers and his friends (…) We welcome this news thanking all Cartagena, who always welcomed Gabriel García Márquez and we believe that their presence will continue in the city loved, “said the regional leader.
Like Cartagena, University of Austin, Texas, Mexico City, Medellin, Bogota and Aracataca, his hometown, asked to be the place where the ashes finally repose Colombian Nobel.
Why Merced? Governor’s response was that the decision was taken by the family, but said the site has a special meaning. It is next to the Teatro Adolfo Mejia, near the home of the Nobel, but mostly because their remains will be guarded by the Merced, which is also the name of his wife. “This is an effort of many friends, many invaluable management and his family love this city.”
Since the process began to build the pedestal where the ashes of Gabo be covered, and the will top a bronze of her dear friend, the British sculptor Kate Murray.
“Of course we can assume it will be a place of international pilgrimage. It will be a new stage of importance and interest to the academic world and for fans of Gabriel García Márquez. It will give a live somewhere that was exclusively for graduate students from the University of Cartagena environment. I imagine the first cruise and tourists come to the cloister and photographed. There must be an access protocol, but imagine the Hay Festival, all the writers of the world will pay tribute to Gabo “said Gossaín excited.
With regard to this important news, the Governor said that the most determinant was the García Barcha family and institutionally supported the Government of Bolivar and the University of Cartagena.
“I imagine that on December 12 will be national authorities and assume that the District will also participate,” although It made it clear that none of them participated in this good news
Finally, the Governor left him a task to Cartagena. “We are indebted to a cultural center in honor of Gabo”
FAMILY DECISION
The ashes of García Márquez will stay in Cartagena, a city where the remains of the parents of the writer and some of his brothers as Eligio and Alfredo, his family sources confirmed to Universal of Cartagena. Mercedes Barcha, the wife of García Márquez, prudent and wise, took that decision with her children Rodrigo and Gonzalo, after spending the last three months in the city. Mercedes recently donated a tree that was planted in Macondo home the walled heart of Cartagena. The governor of Bolivar, Juan Carlos Gossaín visited the widow of the writer, and encouraged the ashes of the greatest writer in the history of Colombia repose in Cartagena, sharing all the brothers of the writer and his family desire.
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