1982

Banquet speech

Aaron Klug’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to express my profound gratitude for the distinction with which you have honoured me today. Ever since I heard the news of the Royal Swedish Academy’s decision, and even since arriving in Stockholm,…

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Prose

English Excerpt from Cien años de soledad Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de…

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Banquet speech

Gabriel García Márquez’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 (in Spanish) Sus Majestades, Sus Altezas Reales, Amigos: Agradezco a la Academia de Letras de Suecia el que me haya distinguido con un premio que me coloca junto a muchos de quienes orientaron y enriquecieron mis años de lector y de cotidiano celebrante de…

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Prose

English Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water…

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Bibliography

  Works in Spanish La hojarasca. – Bogota: Ediciones Sipa, 1955 El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. – Medellin: Aguirre Editor, 1961 La mala hora. – Madrid: Talleres de Graficas “Luis Perez”, 1961 Los funerales de la Mama Grande. – Mexico: Editorial Universidad Veracruzana, 1962 Cien años de soledad. – Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana,…

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