García Márquez ashes will rest in Colombia – El Nuevo Herald

The family of Gabriel García Márquez decided that the Colombian Nobel ashes rest in a cloister in Cartagena de Indias, the Caribbean city immortalized in many of his works, official sources announced.

“With much emotion officially inform you that the ashes will rest Nobel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena, “said Juan Carlos Gossaín, the governor of Bolivar, which owns Cartagena

The ashes of the author of” One Hundred Years of Solitude ” who died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City, where he lived much of his life, will be “in the central courtyard of La Merced Cloister,” a place dedicated to academia, research and culture. “

In the Cloister of Mercy works today University of Cartagena (public), which was founded in 1827 and is recognized as the oldest in the Colombian Caribbean.

The Government added that with occasion of the arrival of the ashes of the nobel Colombia, “the family donated a bronze of her dear friend, the British sculptor Kate Murray”.

García Márquez, born in the Caribbean town of Aracataca in 1928 reached Cartagena at age 20 and worked as a reporter for the newspaper El Universal in that city.

“These early years in Cartagena was a momentous in the life of the rising young writer and journalist now,” added the governor .

The family decision of the Nobel Gabriel García Márquez that his ashes rest in the Caribbean city of Cartagena reaffirms the “Colombian pride” the writer told Efe the director of the Foundation for New Latin American Journalism ( FNPI), Jaime Abello.

“This confirms something fundamental, which is the Colombian pride of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his wife Mercedes Barcha, and what belongs to Cartagena,” said Abello.

The ashes of Gabo, who died on April 17, 2014 at age 87, will arrive in Cartagena on December from Mexico City, the residence of the writer and his family for many years.

The director of the FNPI, a foundation created by the writer, considered a “logical decision, consistent with the life of García Márquez and his wife” that his ashes are to stand in the Cloister La Merced, Cartagena, city where Gabo lived in his youth and in whose historic center is still home

“Cartagena was the place that García Márquez chose to be his home.; the only house of his life was made in Cartagena. In Cartagena living members of his family, his parents are buried in Cartagena. Cartagena is the place of choice for its flagship project, which is the Foundation for New Latin American Journalism, “he said.