Thursday, October 07, 2010

Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel literature prize

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said it honoured the 74-year-old author “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.”

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