FILE - In this Oct. 21, 1982 file photo, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is interviewed at his home in Colombia after he was announced the winner of that year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Marquez "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." Garcia Marquez is widely seen as the Spanish language‚Äôs most-popular 20th century writer through novels such as ‚ÄúOne Hundred Years of Solitude." This year's winner is set to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo, File)