SPAN6652 · Romance Languages and Literatures

Hispanic Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

A wide variety of Spanish and Latin American writes have been honored by the Swedish Academy since the first literary Nobel Prize award in 1901. The literary achievements of these authors play an essential role in the development of twentieth-century Hispanic literature. Although all the Hispanic prize recipients will be taken into account, we will concentrate on eight winners spanning the twentieth century, Gabriel GarcaMrquez and Camilo Jos Cela among them. By studying limited selections of their representative works, of different genres, students gain an understanding of linguistic and ideological dimensions responsible for the Nobel award to each laureate. Conducted in Spanish