Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Mexico's Octavio Paz will be honored at the 28th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Nov. 29 – Dec. 7th. The event president Raul Padilla Lopez announced that participants will commemorate the birth centennial of Paz (1914-1998) and celebrate the memory of Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), who died in April.

The gathering of about 650 writers from 32 countries will include Brazilian Nelida Piñon, Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, Scottish musician David Byrne, Welsh author Ken Follett, and Italian scholar Claudio Magris, winner of the FIL's Literature Award in Romance Languages for 2014.

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