Gabo and his Legendary Macondo at Bogota Book Fair

Bogotá.- Editorial showcase of Latin America and the world, the International Book Fair of Bogota (Filbo), will reverence legendarhy Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his fictitious town of Macondo, confirmed its sponsors. The greatest literary event of this Andean country, will render tribute to Gabo next April, when is commemorated one year from the Nobel Prize Winners death.

Storyteller and journalist, the Literature Nobel Prize in 1982, Gabo created a universe described in One Hundred Years of Solitude, will have a new opportunity on earth told reporters the organizers of the feast of letters.

On this occasion, Filbo will dedicate thre thousand square meters to evoke the Macondo world witn exhibitions, conferences of academics and multimedia creations.

Music and other traditions of tne Colombian Caribbean, linked to the life of the novelist, will give glitter to the Corterias grounds, that will welcome pavilions of almost all participating countries of the region, together with compilations of other nations.

Born in Aracataca, a little village located 80 kilometers from the Caribbean coast, Gabo died last April 17 in Mexico, victim of cancer.

Curators and followers of his work participate in the conception of the space dedicated to recreate Macondo, kind of a metaphor of some Latin American towns.

The fair will open doors on April 21 and close on May 4, and will be sponsored by tne Colombian Book Chamber, the Ministry of Culture and the Bogota mayorship.

Among the labrynths covered by texts, visitors will be able to remember the work of the intellectual whose legacy boasts such novels as Love in Times of Cholera, Of Love and Otner Demons and Chronicle of an Announced Death.

Source: PL