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Press Release

7 October 2010
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa


The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2010 is awarded to the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa

"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat".

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Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, Peru to Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta. After his parents divorced, he grew up with his mother and grandfather in the city of Cochabamba in Bolivia. The family moved to Piura, Peru in 1946 where his grandfather held an appointment as a civil servant. His parents were reunited in 1947 and settled in Lima. Mario Vargas Llosa went to a Catholic school in Lima. Later his father sent him to the military school, Leoncio Prado. After graduating from Colegio Nacional San Miguel in Piura, Mario Vargas Llosa studied law and literature in Lima and Madrid. In 1955, he married Julia Urquidi. In 1959, he moved to Paris where he worked as a language teacher and as a journalist for Agence-France-Presse and the national television service of France. As an author, he had an international breakthrough with the novel La ciudad y los perros (1963; The Time of the Hero, 1966). This novel, which builds on experiences from Leoncio Prado, was considered controversial in his home land. A thousand copies were burnt publicly by officers from Leoncio Prado. In 1964 Mario Vargas Llosa divorced Julia Urquidi. The following year, he married his cousin, Patricia Llosa. After having lived alternately in Paris, Lima, London and Barcelona, he returned to Lima in 1974. In 1975 he was elected to the Peruvian Academy. He has lectured and taught at a number of universities in the USA, South America and Europe. In 1990 he ran for the Presidency representing the FREDEMO alliance in Peru, but lost the election. In 1994 he was elected to the Spanish Academy, where he took his seat in 1996. In recent years he has lived in Barcelona, Madrid, Lima, Paris and London. His well known works include Conversación en la catedral (1969; Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975), La guerra del fin del mundo (1981; The War of the End of the World, 1984) and La fiesta del chivo (2000; The Feast of the Goat, 2001). He is also a noted journalist and essayist. (see Mario Vargas Llosa's Bio-bibliography)

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Lea un fragmento de la nueva novela de Mario Vargas Llosa:
 'El sueño del celta'
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(El País) Mario Vargas Llosa se había convencido, a lo largo de los años, de que él no era un escritor para este premio. ¿Y por qué? "¿Por qué? Porque llegué a la conclusión de que yo no estaba en la identikit del Nobel; yo soy un escritor conflictivo, tomo posiciones incómodas, me equivoque o no siempre digo lo que me parecen las cosas, y todo eso me hizo creer que no era el escritor que encajara con la manera de ver la literatura por parte del jurado". (ver entrevista completa)

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2010 Nobel Prizes

Physiology or Medicine

Robert G. Edwards

Physics

Andre Geim

Konstantin Novoselov

Chemistry

Richard F. Heck

Ei-ichi Negishi

Akira Suzuki

Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peace

Friday 8 October, 11:00 a.m. CET, 9:00 a.m. GMT

Economic Sciences

Monday 11 October, 1:00 p.m. CET, 11:00 a.m. GMT

(Source: http://nobelprize.org/)