Nobel writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s home town has rejected a proposal to rename itself. “The town’s mayor proposed renaming Aracataca after Macondo, the fictional setting for the writer’s most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Mayor Pedro Sanchez hoped the change would bring more tourists to the town. More than 90% of votes cast were in favour of the change, but only half the necessary 7,400 people went to vote.”