Gabriel García Márquez 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

On March 6th, 1928, the winner for the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1982 was born in the town of Aracataca in the costal region of Colombia in South America. Gabriel García Marquez, best known for his novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and his amazing use of magical realism in such, is a very loved and recognized colombian writer.(Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Biography)  Most of his novels portray the reality of Colombian life, government, and social environment. His novels are shaped around the violent years in Colombia starting from the murder of president Jorge Elieser Gaitan. During this tragic period in colombian history, conservatives and liberals had wide disputes over socio-economic and land granting issues. This caused rebellion among civilians and led to the creation of guerillas by the liberal civilians which then turned to violent confrontations and eventually led to the drug trafficking problem, kidnaping, and infamous civilian and political murders. In his novels, Garcia Márquez shows, by the means of a story, what the definition of a normal life was in those times for an average colombian. Other famous novels include: "Love in the Time of Cholera", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "No One Writes to the Colonel", and many others. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 was awarded to 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". (The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982)

Gabriel García Márquez

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"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 24 Nov 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/>

"Gabriel García Márquez - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 24 Nov 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-facts.html>

"Gabriel García Márquez - Biography." Gabriel García Márquez. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. <http://www.egs.edu/library/gabriel-garcia-marquez/>.

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Gabriel García Márquez. N.d. Photograph. Nobelprize.org. The Nobel Prize Foundation. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-facts.html>.