Nobel Prize

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…

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. –…

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…

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 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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  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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Artist: Karin Mamma Andersson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

German Auszug von Die Klavierspielerin (Seite 7–8 und 108–110) Die Klavierlehrerin Erika Kohut stürzt wie ein Wirbelsturm in die Wohnung, die sie mit ihrer Mutter teilt. Die Mutter nennt Erika gern ihren kleinen Wirbelwind, denn das Kind bewegt sich manchmal extrem geschwind. Es trachtet danach, der Mutter zu entkommen. Erika geht auf das Ende der…