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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel prize for literature.

Congratulations Mario and thank you for your novels!

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The awarding committee said Vargas Llosa received the award “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”.

The prize of 10 million Swedish krona (€1.07 million) was the fourth of this year’s Nobel prizes, following awards for medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry yesterday.

Read more… Irish Times

The Peruvian writer, novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature.

Cited by the Swedish Academy for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”, the 10m SEK (£1m) award crowns a literary career that was launched in 1963 with his novel The Time of the Hero, and includes further books such as Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The Feast of the Goat (2000).

Read more… The Guardian

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

Read More… The New York Times