The part of the ashes of Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned to Colombia, where he began his writing career.

Gabriel García Marquez died in Mexico City on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87, The Washington Post reported. 

According to Associated Press, the ashes were placed in the commemorative stone, on which the writer's bust was put. The ceremony of consecration of a bust took place in the historic Caribbean port city of Cartagena in the monastery of a colonial era. His relatives, friends and local dignitaries participated in the ceremony of consecration. The rest of the ashes will remain in Mexico.

According to the agency, the walled city of Cartagena was the setting for one of his best-selling novels, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

The prose writer, the journalist, the publisher and the politician, Márquez became Nobel Prize laureate in literature in 1982. The representative of the literary movement of magical realism and Latin American and the Luminary world prose of the XX century,  he is the author of world famous books, such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and "No One writes to the Colonel”.