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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982

"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"
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia
b. 1928
 
 
 
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