The 1982

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was awarded to the Colombian writer

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...

(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." García Márquez was the first Colombian and fourth Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Laureate

García Márquez's international success came with the novel '' Cien años de soledad'' ("One Hundred Years of Solitude", 1967). He is one of the foremost interpreters of

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in literature, a genre in which the framework narrative is set in a real place and time, but supernatural and dreamlike elements are part of the portrayal. The novels '' El otoño del patriarca'' ("The Autumn of the Patriarch", 1975), '' Crónica de una muerte anunciada'' ("Chronicle of a Death Foretold", 1981) and '' El amor en los tiempos del colera'' ("Love in the Time of Cholera", 1985) cemented his position as one of the greatest Latin American writers of all time.

Reactions

The choice of García Márquez as the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1982 was enthusiastically well received by literary critics and readers around the world. García Márquez was among the favourites to receive the prize, other candidates for the prize that got strong attention in the press this year were

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and

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Award ceremony speech

In his award ceremony speech on 10 December 1982

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of the

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said that the Academy "could not be said to bring forward an unknown writer", pointing out the unusual success of García Márquez's 1967 novel '' One Hundred Years of Solitude''. He spoke of García Márquez as a "rare storyteller richly endowed with a material, from imagination and experience, which seems inexhaustible" and his importance in bringing attention to Latin American literature. "The great novels remind one of

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", Gyllensten said, "With his stories García Márquez has created a world of his own which is a microcosmos. In its tumultuous, bewildering yet graphically convincing authenticity it reflects a continent and its human riches and poverty."

Nobel lecture

Gabriel García Márquez

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''The Solitude of Latin America'' was delivered at the

on 8 December 1982.

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