Santa Marta, COLOMBIA: Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, sitting alongside his wife Mercedes Barcha, is asked by admirers to dedicate them books, before boarding the train to his hometown Aracataca 30 May, 2007 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Garcia Marquez didn’t visit Aracataca in twenty years. AFP PHOTO/Alejandra VEGA (Photo credit should read ALEJANDRA VEGA/AFP/Getty Images)