Did you know that Latin America boasts six Nobel Prize in Literature winners?
Gabriela Mistral in the 1950w
1. Gabriela Mistral, Chile (1945)
Mistral wrote several volumes of poetry, including “Sonetos de la muerte” (Death sonnets) (1914), “Desolación” Disolation (1922) and “Ternura” (Tenderness) (1924). Mistral won “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world.”
2. Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala (1967) The Academy awarded Asturias the Nobel Prize “for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.”
3. Pablo Neruda, Chile (1971) He won “for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent’s destiny and dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez in 2009.
4. Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia (1982) He received the nobel prize “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.” His main novel is Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude).
1990 Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz.
5. Octavio Paz, Mexico (1990) Paz won the Nobel Prize “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.”
6. Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) Vargas Llosa’s varied work “embraces a multiplicity of styles but can best be described as deeply political, with a focus on questions of power and its dangers.” One of his main novels is La ciudad y los perros (The City and the Dogs).
