An announcement from the awarding committee mentioned Llosa acquired the prize for “his cartography of energy buildings and vivid photographs of human resilience, defeat and insurrection.”
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa gained the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, the BBC reported.
An announcement from the awarding committee mentioned Llosa acquired the prize for “his cartography of energy buildings and vivid photographs of human resilience, defeat and insurrection.”
One of the vital internationally acknowledged Latin American authors, Vargas Llosa is the primary South American winner of the prize since 1982. Then the Nobel laureate for literature grew to become the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez.
74-year-old Vargas Llosa is the writer of over 30 novels, performs and essays. His worldwide breakthrough got here together with his novel “The Metropolis and the Canines” (“La Ciudad y los Perros”; 1962). In 1993, three years after unsuccessfully operating for president of Peru, Vargas Llosa acquired Spanish citizenship, and in 1995, the Cervantes Prize, essentially the most prestigious literary award within the Spanish-speaking world.
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