Thiruvananthapuram: The Malayali instinct of always being persistent helped in travels and the experiences from which helped create the landscape for novels, said writer Benyamin at the travel lit fest Yaanam 2025. The festival concluded at Varkala on Sunday. Speaking at a session on ‘Macondo, Marquez and More', Benyamin recollected how he travelled to places belonging to his favourite writers and said he managed to enter the University of Cartagena to see the remains of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez while travelling in Colombia. Benyamin said, "I was travelling through Colombia, where Marquez lived and wrote, and one day we heard...