Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico city on March 6, 2014.
Journalists surround the vehicle from a funeral home entering the home of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City.
A fan arrives with a wreath at the funeral home to pay tribute to the late Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Graciela Fernandez, mourns during a vigil in front of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Museum, at the house were he was born in Aracataca, Colombia.
A woman touches a photo on a pictorial timeline on the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogota, Colombia.
A man looks at a timeline of the life of the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a wall at the Luis Angel Arango Library in downtown Bogota, Colombia.
In this file photo, two girls walk past a street mural with a painting of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at his birth place Aracataca in Colombia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is in deep conversation with filmmaker Roman Polanski in Havana. Through his cinematic vision, Polanski attempted to translate the novelist's magic realism to the silver screen.
Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are seen during a dinner in Havana. The duo, arguably considered Latin America's greatest gifts to the world, expressed and echoed the anger of the continet in their own ways.
As in the case of Latin America's agony and anguish, Garcia Marquez was equally vocal in support of Palestine’s cause. In this October 20, 1995 photo PLO leader Yasser Arafat greets Marquez in Colombia.
Another masterpiece on the way. A 1972 photo shows the Colombian Nobel laureate at an unknown location.