Awards & Winners

Gabriel García Márquez

Date of Birth 06-March-1927
Place of Birth Aracataca
(Colombia, Magdalena department)
Nationality Colombia
Also know as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez, Gabr Marquez, G. G. Marquez, Gabo, García Márquez, Gabriel, Gabriel José García Márquez, Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, Gabriel Márquez
Profession Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter, Author, Publicist, Actor
Quotes
  • Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
  • The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
  • A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
  • She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
  • No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
  • The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
  • Necessity has the face of a dog.
  • Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
  • A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
  • He who awaits much can expect little.
  • An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is the earliest living recipient. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.

Awards by Gabriel García Márquez

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gabriel García Márquez.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2003


New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : Living to Tell the Tale

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.)

1980


Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
(Literature)
Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema
Honored for : The year of the plague

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema The year of the plague

1975


Ariel Award for Best Original Story
Honored for : Presage
Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema
Honored for : Presage

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema Presage
Ariel Award for Best Original Story Presage

1972


Rómulo Gallegos Prize
Honored for : One Hundred Years of Solitude
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature