García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982 `` 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 '' .
In 1982 , he received the 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 '' .