First edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel stolen

The celebrated author's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was first published in Spanish in 1967 and is considered a literary masterpiece.

May 04, 2015 11:44 am | Updated 11:49 am IST - Bogota

A placard of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is surrounded by yellow butterfly cutouts with messages, placed there by fans at a bookstore on the first anniversary of his death in Mexico City. Photo: AP

A placard of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is surrounded by yellow butterfly cutouts with messages, placed there by fans at a bookstore on the first anniversary of his death in Mexico City. Photo: AP

The first edition copy of late Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most acclaimed book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was stolen from international book fair of Bogota on Sunday, said copy owner Alvaro Castillo Granada.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” was first published in Spanish in 1967 and is considered a literary masterpiece. Also, it is one of the most translated books across the world, Xinhua news agency reported.

The stolen copy has a dedication of “To Alvaro Castillo, the old-book seller, as yesterday and forever, your friend, Gabo (Marquez was known as Gabo throughout Latin America)”. It also has a cover different from that of other versions, featuring a boat surrounded by wild plants.

Castillo, who lent the book for the exhibition, said “the copy is invaluable and should not go on sale”, adding that an official complaint has been filed before authorities. Marquez, who died on April 17, 2014, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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