Solitude_of_Latin_America
The Solitude of Latin America
1982 lecture by Gabriel García Márquez
"The Solitude of Latin America" (Spanish: La Soledad de América Latina) is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez on 8 December 1982 upon being awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1] The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy.[2]
García Márquez gained fame for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, first published in 1967.[3] According to the Nobel Foundation, García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature 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".[4] The style of prose to which the Nobel Foundation refers is known as magic realism, a broadly descriptive term critics use to describe García Márquez's work.