When he won the Nobel Prize in 1982, Marquez traveled to Sweden and, exhausted, went to sleep. “I suddenly woke up in bed, and I remembered that they always give the same room in the same hotel to the Nobel winner,” Garcia Marquez told the Times in 1990. “And I thought, ‘Rudyard Kipling has slept in this bed, Thomas Mann, Neruda, Asturias, Faulkner.’ It terrified me, and finally I went out to sleep on the sofa.