What…a feather in Peru’s cap: Author Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.Many were surprised by the choice of Vargas Llosa for the win, but leave it to a Peruvian to come in from behind and make everyone’s jaws drop.
The author of The Time of the Hero, The Green House, and Conversation in the Cathedral – and The Bad Girl, which is sitting next to my bed waiting to be read – “was chosen for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”
He is the first South American to win the Nobel since Gabriel García Márquez took the award home in 1982 (Mexico’s Octavio Paz won it in 1990).
Vargas Llosa’s books Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter have been adapted for the big screen.
Inspiring.
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