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Born	March 6, 1927 • Colombia
Died	April 17, 2014 (aged 87) • Mexico City • Mexico
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1982)
Notable Works	“Living to Tell the Tale” • “Love in the Time of Cholera” • “Memories of My Melancholy Whores” • “News of a Kidnapping” • “No One Writes to the Colonel” • “One Hundred Years of Solitude” • “The Leaf Storm”

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Álvaro Mutis

Colombian author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author

José Saramago

José Saramago

Portuguese author

Imre Kertész

Hungarian writer

Saul Bellow

American author

Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917.

Henrik Pontoppidan

Danish author

Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt

Colombian politician

Tomás Carrasquilla

Colombian author

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864

Frédéric Mistral

French poet

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Nobel prize-winning American author, Pearl S. Buck, at her home, Green Hills Farm, near Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1962. (Pearl Buck)

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