Nobel Prize

English Excerpt from The Storyteller I FIRST became acquainted with the Amazon jungle halfway through 1958, thanks to my friend Rosita Corpancho. Her function at the University of San Marcos was vague; her power unlimited. She prowled among the professors without being one of them, and they all did whatever she asked; thanks to her…

Brindis del Nobel Spanish Soy un contador de historias y, por lo tanto, antes de proponerles un brindis, voy a contarles una historia. Érase una vez un niño que a los cinco años aprendió a leer. Eso le cambió la vida. Gracias a los libros de aventuras…

Artist: Bo Larsson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991 Writing and Being In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, signified God’s Word, the word that was Creation. But over the centuries of human culture the word has taken on other meanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous…

Loot Once upon our time, there was an earthquake: but this one is the most powerful ever recorded since the invention of the Richter scale made possible for us to measure apocalyptic warnings. It tipped a continental shelf. These tremblings often cause floods; this colossus did the reverse, drew back the ocean…

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Novels The Lying Days. – London : Gollancz, 1953 A World of Strangers. – London : Gollancz, 1958 Occasion for Loving. – London : Gollancz, 1963 The Late Bourgeois World. – New York : Viking, 1966 A Guest of Honour. – London : Cape, 1971 The Conservationist. – London : Cape, 1974 Burger’s Daughter. –…

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…

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…