Nobel Prize

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 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…

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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  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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English Excerpts from The Piano Teacher (Pages 3–5 and 120–121) The piano teacher, Erika Kohut, bursts like a whirlwind into the apartment she shares with her mother. Mama likes calling Erika her little whirlwind, for the child can be an absolute speed demon. She is trying to escape her mother. Erika is in her late…