MEXICO-COLOMBIA-LITERATURE-GARCIA MARQUEZ-DEATH-TRIBUTE

A yellow rose -- the favourite flower of Colombian 1982 Literature Nobel Prize laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- which he so often wore on his lapel for good luck, lies next to the urn containing his ashes, during a tribute paid to him at the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City on April 21, 2014. Mexico bids farewell Monday to its favorite adoptive son, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with a national tribute filled with the late Nobel winner's favorite music and roses. Garcia Marquez, who died in Mexico City on Thursday aged 87, will be eulogized in the domed Bellas Artes Palace, a cultural centre where Mexico pays tributes to its late artistic icons. AFP PHOTO/RONALDO SCHEMIDT (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)