The Remains of our Gamo

THE REMAINS OF OUR GABO

Now the remains of the Nobel Prize in Colombian Literature rest in the Cloister of Mercy of the University of Cartagena, by decision of his wife and children.

The patio is white and yellow, like the flowers that adorn the iron and methacrylate pedestal on which the cement box with the ashes and a bust of the writer signed by British artist Katie Murray, a friend of the family, has been placed. 

Gabo began his relationship with this city in 1948, when the still law student had to leave Bogota after the death of the liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and the riots that came after the assassination.

His father sent him to the only university on the Atlantic coast to continue his studies, and since then he fell in love with the place where he started as a journalist.

The first time he returned to Colombia he did it to Cartagena, to the film festival, where at the end he bought an apartment, wrote two novels, built his family home and decided to create the foundation.