COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1982—2016
Nobel Prize winners
from Colombia.
2 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 2 recipient awards across 2 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Colombia
2 total
- Gabriel García Márquez
Born in Aracataca, Colombia. Recognized “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”.
- 1982Literature
- Juan Manuel Santos
Born in Bogotá, Colombia. Recognized “for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.
- 2016Peace
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Literature
- 1
- Peace
- 1
Award decade
- 2010s
- 1
- 1980s
- 1