- known as
- novelist, dramaturge, politician, journalist, essayist, literary critic, university teacher, prose writer, playwright, philosopher, opinion journalist, writer, film director, 1976 to 1976, broadcaster, founder
- fields
- literature, creative and professional writing
- degrees
- Doctor of Letters, 2004
- awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, 2010, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, 1967, Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, 1986, Grinzane Cavour Prize, 1986, Premio Planeta de Novela, 1993, honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2, 1994, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, 1994, Jerusalem Prize, 1995, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, 1996, Mariano de Cavia' Price, 1997, Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, 1999, Ortega y Gasset Awards, 1999, Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of the Sun of Peru, 2001, Irving Kristol Award, 2005, Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin, 2005, Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, 2006, honorary doctor of the University of Alicante, 2008, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, 2008, Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language, 2012, Library of Congress Living Legend, 2016, Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1985, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, 1993, Order of Christopher Columbus, Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío, 2006, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, 2011, Caonabo de Oro Award, 2002, Freedom Prize, 2008, honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos, 2001, honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid, 1995, gold Medal of the Community of Madrid, 2015, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University, 2009, honorary doctorate of the University of Granada, 2009, Viareggio-Versilia International Prize, 2010, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 2012, honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia, 1995, Premio Biblioteca Breve, 1962, Castilian Narrative Critic Award, 1964, Prix Formentor, 1967, Castilian Narrative Critic Award, 1967, National Culture Award, 1967, Scanno Prize, 1989, Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela española, 1995, honorary doctor of the University of Pau, 2001, honorary doctorate from University of French Polynesia, 2001, honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, 2005, honorary doctorate of the University of Reims, 2007, Premio Ceppo Pistoia, 2009, Alfonso Reyes International Prize, 2010, St. Louis Literary Award, 2011, Don Quijote Journalism Prize, 2015, honorary doctorate of the University of Burgos, 2016, Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit, 2018, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, 2018, Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá, 2019, prix André-Malraux du roman engagé, 2021, honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral, honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, 1997, Hayek Medal, 2016, Officer of Arts and Letters
- member of
- Royal Spanish Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brazilian Academy of Letters, Mont Pelerin Society, Peruvian Academy of Language, 1977 to 2025, Inter-American Dialogue, Académie Française, from 2021
- notable works
- The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversation in The Cathedral
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