Nobel Literature Prize Awarded

This Thursday the Peruvian writer and author of novels such as “The Time of the Hero” and “Conversation in the Cathedral,” Mario Vargas Llosa, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”

Mr. Vargas Llosa is one of the most celebrated writers in the Spanish speaking world and is the first South American to win a Nobel prize in literature after Gabríel Garcia Márquez won the prize in 1982.

Mr. Vargas Llosa has over 30 novels, plays and essays to his name at age 74.

Responding to reporters in New York he said, “I am very grateful … I think it is, for any writer, a great encouragement, a recognition of a world."

To learn more about Mr. Vargas Llosa visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_en_ot/eu_nobel_literature.