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1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
Award
1982 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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"for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts." | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts."[1]
García Márquez was the first Colombian and only the fourth Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2]
Laureate
Main article: Gabriel García Márquez
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