Gabriel Garcia Marquez Honored in Cartagena

At the fourth gathering of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was honored with a commenorative edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in literature and considered Latin America's most famous living writer, Garcia Marquez is delight at tribute (AP): "Fellow writers Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Tomas Eloy Martinez of Argentina praised the longtime friend they affectionately know as Gabo for breathing life into and remaking a language now spoken by nearly 500 million people — the official tongue of 21 nations and the fourth most popular after Chinese, English and Hindi."

Read more about Gabo in Colombian Art, Culture and Entertainment.