Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1982 , GarcÃ a MÃ rquez 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 '' .
Simplified: 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 '' .