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Article: Locals aim to transform Nobel writer's town into tourist destination.(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 25, 2005
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Byline: Gary Marx
ARACATACA, Colombia _ Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's greatest living writer, a man of startling originality whose "magical realism" style of prose earned him the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.
He is arguably Colombia's most famous citizen, but you'd never know it from his boyhood home, a sagging, gingerbread-like structure that authorities have allowed to fall into disrepair.
The sparse interior is decorated with a handful of odd items, including faded photographs of the writer, a couple of wicker chairs and, tucked into one corner, a wooden statue of a saint with her hands missing. The acrid odor of feces wafts ...