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Peru's Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Literature prize | Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature. The Nobel Prize committee said in a statement
Vargas Llosa received the award "for his cartography of structures of power and
his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". The
74-year-old
writer is the first South American to win the Nobel since Colombian magic-realist
innovator Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. Mexico's Octavio Paz won the prize in
1990. Like Paz and many other Latin American authors, Vargas Llosa has dabbled
in politics over the years. He even ran, unsuccessfully, for the the Peruvian
presidency in 1990. From the publication of his first novel, 1963 -- The Time
of the Hero, based on his experiences at a Peruvian military academy, Vargas Llosa
is recognized as a leading figure in the Latin American literature in the second
half of the 20th century. He has written essays, non-fiction, and fiction in a
wide variety of genres and styles. The Green House is widely considered among
his best works. It is a non-chronological account of unrest in Peru centered on
the desert brothel of the title. The bitter 1969 novel Conversations in the Cathedral
embeds a critique of the dictatorship of Peruvian president Manuel Odria in the
story of one man's search for the truth about his minister father's role in the
murder of a notorious underworld figure. In the 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat
(published in the U.S. in 2002), Vargas Llosa makes a startlingly unsympathetic,
Shakespeare-worthy villain of Rafael Trujillo, the real-life military despot who
ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930-61. Many Americans may know Vargas
Llosa
best for his 1977 comic novel, Aunt Julia and the Screenwriter, which was adapted
into American director Jon Amiel's widely praised movie Tune in Tomorrow, starring
Peter Falk as a larger-than-life creator of radio soap operas who manipulates
the May-December relationship of a young aspiring writer (Keanu Reeves) and his
older, twice-divorced aunt by marriage (Barbara Hershey). (EW's Owen Gleiberman
said the film "crackles with romantic heat.") The prize of 10 million Swedish
crowns (1.50 million dollars) was the fourth of this year's Nobel prizes, following
awards for medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday.
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