Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library

The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a 12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him

In the digital age, building a new library filled with old-fashioned printed books seems idealistic, almost quixotic.Not so in Barcelona. The city council is about to open a new 12m (10m) library next month, the latest instalment in a programme that dates back 20 years.

The library, in the working-class district of Sant Marti de Provencals, has been named in honour of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.