Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, today
In its citation, the Swedish Academy hailed Mr. Vargas Llosa, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”. The Swedish Academy has once again made a choice that is infused with politics. In 1990, he ran for the presidency of Peru and has been an outspoken activist in his native country.
Julie Bosman in a report for The New York Times wrote that Mr. Vargas Llosa “is one of the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world, frequently mentioned with his contemporary Gabríel Garcia Márquez, who won the literature Nobel in 1982, the last South American to do so.” Vargas Llosa is one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the post-war era and one of the great libertarian heroes of the age at least since his highly public criticism of the Castro regime starting in the early 1970s.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa born March 28, 1936, rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral.
In its citation, the Swedish Academy hailed Mr. Vargas Llosa, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”. The Swedish Academy has once again made a choice that is infused with politics. In 1990, he ran for the presidency of Peru and has been an outspoken activist in his native country.
Julie Bosman in a report for The New York Times wrote that Mr. Vargas Llosa “is one of the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world, frequently mentioned with his contemporary Gabríel Garcia Márquez, who won the literature Nobel in 1982, the last South American to do so.” Vargas Llosa is one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the post-war era and one of the great libertarian heroes of the age at least since his highly public criticism of the Castro regime starting in the early 1970s.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa born March 28, 1936, rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral.
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