Bogotá - Due to the 90th anniversary today of the birth of Gabriel García Márquez, celebrated by Colombians and the world of literature, a project is being prepared for the realization of the first series of fiction referred to the Literature Nobel Laureate.

The work will be directed by Sergio Cabrera and is expected to have three seasons of 13 episodes each. By mid-April, the first episode and production design of the launch season would be ready.

As part of this initiative to spread the legacy of Gabo, in addition to Cabrera, content producer Hugo Leon Ferrer, and independent producers Cristina Villar Rosa and Catalina Figueroa García-Herreros will participate in the production.

The project will be based on research carried out over the past two years on archival materials, including interviews and accounts of friends and works by other writers dedicated to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1982.

In the proposal for the sale of the content, an OTT platform (Youtube, Netflix) will be used, in order to seek funding.

Prior to this anniversary and the transfer of the ashes of García Márquez from Mexico City to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, many tributes have been made on the occasion of the birth of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The emission from the end of last years of a new bank note of 50 thousand pesos (about 17 dollars), which takes his portrait is among them, as well as paintings in high buildings of Colombian cities, in the style of giant graffiti with his emblem.

Also the channel Canal Capital projected a year ago the release of a documentary series directed by filmmaker Lisandro Duque, which tells the life and work of the author of No One Writes to the Colonel.

This work consisted of three episodes that showed conversations with illustrious friends of the writer from Paris, Barcelona, Mexico, Havana, Cartagena, Bogotá, and Zipaquirá, with revelations, moments and anecdotes of his life.

Also on Monday the Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism will pay homage to Gabo, with the call for Gabriel García Márquez Awards for Journalism for the 2017 edition.