On December 8, 1982, decades after
his unlikely beginnings as a writer,
Gabriel García Márquez(March 6, 1927–April 17, 2014) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. With the hindsight of
a lifetime of reading, he took the stage at the Swedish Academy and delivered his tremendous acceptance speech under the title “The Solitude of Latin America.” The English translation of the transcript was later included in the altogether indispensable tome
Nobel Writers on Writing (
public library), which also gave us Bertrand Russell on
the four desires driving all human behaviorand Pearl S. Buck, the youngest woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, on
art, writing, and the nature of creativity./.../
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