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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America recieved the Nobel Prize from the hands of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize, an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.

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Mario Vargas Llosa receives 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf

at the Concert Hall in Stockholm:

Press Conference in NY a few months ago when Vargas Llosa learned about his award (AFP):

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Announcing the award inStockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”

Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, is oneof the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world, an anti-totalitarian intellectual whose work covers the range of human experience,whether it is ideology or eros. He is frequently mentioned with hiscontemporary Gabriel García Márquez, who won the literatureNobel in 1982, the last South American to do so. Mr. Vargas Llosa has writtenmore than 30 works of nonfiction, plays and novels, including “The Feast of theGoat” and “The War of the End of the World.”

Theprize is the first for a writer in the Spanish language in two decades, after

Octavio Paz of Mexico won in 1990. It renews attention on the Latin American

writers who gained renown in the 1960s, like Julio Cortázar of Argentina and

Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, who formed the region’s “boom generation.”

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