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A man is reading Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's book at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. American literature whose political ambitions saw him run for president of his native Peru, won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize Thursday at the age of 74. Vargas Llosa, long tipped to win the award, is best known for works such as Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat. He is also a prolific journalist, still writing for Spain's El Pais daily. Vargas Llosa has won a string of major literary awards, including the most prestigious of all for a Spanish-language author, the Cervantes Prize. "I didn't even think that I was one of the candidates," he told Colombia's RCN radio in an interview in New York shortly after learning that he had received the prize. "I think it is a recognition of Latin American literature and literature in the Spanish language." Announcing the award, the Swedish Academy hailed "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat." According to the AP, Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the prize since Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez won in 1982. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 on a center-right ticket, but was badly beaten by Alberto Fujimori, who was later disgraced after a string of political scandals. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced today, and the Economics Prize will wrap up the Nobel season Monday. AFP |
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