Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The Latin Americanist reports: “This morning, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa was announced as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Prize's website the journalist, essayist, and playwright received such a prestigious accolade ‘for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat’.”

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