Monday, April 21, 2014

Thousands line up to bid goodbye to Garcia Marquez

A well-wisher holds flowers and an autobiography of Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as he waits outside the Palace of Fine Arts to pay his respect to the beloved author, in Mexico City, Monday, April 21, 2014. Garcia Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. The author's magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) MEXICO CITY (AP) — The ashes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez arrived Monday at Mexico City's majestic Palace of Fine Arts to several minutes of thunderous applause from admirers paying tribute to the Colombian Nobel laureate, considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors of all time.








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