The Nobel Literature Prize has been awarded to Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. The 74-year-old writer is the first Peruvian to receive the prize.
Vargas Llosa is one of the best-known Latin American writers and has been a runner-up for the Nobel Prize for years. His works include La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero, 1966), La casa verde (The Green House, 1968), La guerra del fin del mundo (The War of the End of the World, 1984), and La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat, 2002).
Liberal
Describing himself as a liberal, Vargas Llosa stood as a candidate in the 1990 Peruvian presidential elections, but lost unexpectedly to Alberto Fujimori.
The Nobel Prize, which comes with 10 million Swedish krona (1.5 million euros), has been awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."
Number 11
Vargas Llosa is the eleventh Hispanic laureate having been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. His first predecessor was Spain's José Echegaray y Eizaguirre in 1904. Other winners writing in Spanish include Pablo Neruda (1971) and Gabriel García Márquez (1982).
The most recent Hispanic laureate was Mexican author Octavio Paz in 1990.
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Congrats to Mr. Vargas Llosa for this great achievement!
Bravo Mr. Vargas Llosa! You more than deserve it. I enjoy reading your great literature.
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