Nobel laureate: Gabriel García Márquez
Born: 1927-03-06, Aracataca, Colombia
Died: 2014-04-17, Mexico City, Mexico
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1982
category: literature
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motivation: "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"