"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"

Biography:

Born in Aracataca, in the coastal department of Magdalena, Colombia, Sunday, March 6, 1927. Son of Gabriel Eligio Garcia Marquez and Luis Santiago Iguarán. He was reared by his maternal grandparents, Colonel Nicolas Marquez and Tranquilina Iguarán, in Aracataca. His childhood is told in his memoir Living to tell the tale. In 2007 he returned to Aracataca, after 24 years of absence, for which he paid tribute the Colombian government to fulfill its 80 year history and 40 of the first publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today"

Biography:

Golding attended schools in Marlborough where his father Alec was science teacher, starting from 1930 continued his studies at Oxford (Brasenose College) where he studied natural sciences at first - following more aspirations that their father - and after two years spent studying literature and philosophy. In the autumn of 1934 he published his first collection of poems entitled Poems.

He worked for two years as a teacher in a school steineriana in Streatham, south of London, in 1937 he returned to Oxford completed their studies and then moved to Salisbury where he taught at an elementary school and knew Ann Brookfield who married the following year. Moved in Wiltshire and Golding taught at Bishop Wordsworth's School.

"for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man"

Biography:

Jaroslav Seifert (23 September 1901 - January 10 1986) is a writer, poet and journalist Czech. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.

His first collection of poems was published in 1921. He entered the Czechoslovak Communist Party and publishes several newspapers communists - rovnosť, and Srsatec Reflektor. During the 1920s, it is considered a leader in the forefront of Czechoslovakia, it is among others, founder of artistic Devětsil.

In March 1929, it is excluded from the Party with six others of his comrades for having signed a manifesto against trends bolchéviques Czechoslovak Communist Party.

"who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition"

Biography:

Claude Simon was born on October 10, 1913 in Antananarivo, on the island of Madagascar on the east coast of Africa, which by then was a French colony. A year later, his father, Army officer, was killed in World War I and Claude was installed with her mother in Perpignan in southeast France (near the Spanish border), where her grandmother resided.

At the end of high school at College Stanislas in Paris and after some brief stays academic at Oxford and Cambridge, he studied painting at the Academy of the cubist master Andre Lhota and also at Oxford and Cambridge. He traveled to Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece. This experience as well as that of World War II will play a major role in his literary work.