1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel García Márquez
"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."
Date
  • 21 October 1982 (1982-10-21) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1982
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial 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."

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

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