Mario Vargas Llosa takes Nobel for Literature-A of Peru

Mario Vargas Llosa takes Nobel for Literature-A Peruvian.

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa whose works are deeply political strongly the dangers of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

In announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa "for mapping the power structures and their images sharp individual resistance rebellion and defeat. "

Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, is one of the writers most famous of the Spanish language in the world, a totalitarian anti-intellectual, whose work covers the full range of human experience, either the ideology or eros. It is often mentioned along with his contemporary, Gabriel Marquez, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the last in South America to do so. Mr. Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 works of fiction, plays and novels, including "La Fiesta del Chivo" and "End of the World War."

The award is a first for a writer of Spanish in two decades after Octavio Paz of Mexico won in 1990. Renews attention to American writers America that gained fame in the 1960s, such as Julio Cortazar of Argentina and Mexico, Carlos Fuentes, who was the boom area.

During a conference press at the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan on Thursday, Mr. Vargas Llosa, an elegant figure, running with the silver hair, appeared before a crowd of journalists vertigo mostly Spanish speaking, and Alejandro prayer shawl, former president of Peru, who sat at the forefront. Mr. Vargas Llosa is currently spending the semester in the U.S., teaching American studies at Princeton.

Answer the questions in English, Spanish and some French, Mr. Vargas Llosa calls for recognition of the importance of the Nobel Prize for Literature for Latin America and Spanish, which has become "a kind of citizenship in the world" said.

When Mr. Vargas Llosa was young and went to Europe for the first time, he said, "Latin America seems to be a land where there were only dictators revolutionaries, and disasters. Now we know that Latin America can also produce artists, musicians, painters, novelists and thinkers. "

The prize announcement was received with enthusiasm in Latin America, where Mr. Vargas Llosa is widely admired for its literary greatness, but is a figure of the division because of his conservative politics. He has often criticized the leftist governments in the region, including Cuba and Venezuela.

In Peru, members of Congress have spoken to his praise. People held in Arequipa, the city where she was born, with television showing a Peruvian band playing the national anthem in the streets.

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon wrote in a Twitter message that is cause for "pride of Latin America"

In the election of Mr. Vargas Llosa, the Swedish Academy was again a literary-tinged political choice, but this time from the right instead of left. .

"It's very difficult for an American writer of America to avoid politics," Mr. Vargas Llosa said on Thursday. " Literature is an expression of life, and you can not eliminate political life. "

The awards ceremony is scheduled for 10 December in Stockholm. Mr. Vargas Llosa will receive 10 million kronor, or about $ 1,500,000.

Mr. Vargas Llosa first realized I wanted to be writer when he was a child, fascinated by an adventure novel by Jules Verne. He spent much of his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and then moved to his parents in a middle class suburb of Lima. Attended the University of San Marcos in Lima, in mid-1950 – a period of tumultuous Peru – and later learned from this experience to write "Conversation in the Cathedral", a novel published in 1969.

After college, I wanted to leave Peru and began his literary career abroad, living in London, Paris and Madrid.

His work found an international audience in the early 1960 with the publication of "The City and the Dogs," a novel based on a military academy Peru has generated some controversy in his country of origin. In early 1980, was one of the countries of Latin America Sales best writers in the world, having published "Conversation," "House Green and comic novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" among other works.

Not just the fantasy novels that read very However, Rubén Gallo, Spanish literature professor at Princeton University, said Thursday. "One of the authors that in the 20 th century wrote the most eloquent and more poignant intersection between culture and politics in Latin America. "

A brief and unsuccessful effort to formally enter the sand policy followed. Although Peru has been plagued by high inflation and attacks by the Maoist Shining Path in 1990, Mr. Vargas Llosa for the presidency race Don Quixote, in opposition to Alberto Fujimori, then a little knMr. Vargas Llosa was ahead in the polls for most of his campaign, but some factors may have played against him: his aristocratic Peru's poor and its recognition that in the mainly Catholic country, was an agronomist own agnostic.

Mr. Vargas Llosa was ahead in the polls for much of his campaign, but some factors may have played against him: his aristocratic Peru's poor and its recognition in the country largely Roman Catholic, who was an agnostic. a plot twist worthy of Mr. Vargas Llosa, García Márquez and Vargas Llosa, M., at a point close friends, had a sharp drop in 1976 in Mexico City, where they do not have patch.

The incident took place at a movie premiere. When Mr. García Márquez went to Mr. Vargas Llosa Besar, Peruvian writer instead of hitting him in the face, giving him a black eye, an image immortalized days later by the photographer Rodrigo Moya. Mystery surrounds what happened, but apparently the dispute has to do with the wife of Mr. Vargas Llosa, including Mr. García Márquez consoled during a marital separation.

The confusion over the mysterious feud persisted Thursday, after news of a message Twitter assigned to Mr. García Márquez – who said. "Now we have" – tour in the Latin American literary circles Mr. Garcia Foundation Márquez in Colombia then tried to clarify things by saying that the Twitter message was not authentic.

In any case, Alvaro Mutis, Colombian writer who lives in Mexico City and is a friend of both men, told the news agency EFE that reconciliation between the two heavyweights of Latin literature, after 34 years of resentment, probably will not happen.

The news that Mr. Vargas Llosa had gained arrived Thursday morning while working on his Manhattan apartment, preparing to put on a stroll through Central Park, told a radio station in Peru. At first he thought it was a joke.

"It was a big surprise," he said. "It's a good way to start a New York day."

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