Stockholm, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, on Thrusday won the Nobel Prize in Literature, although this year his name was not included in the list of favorites, in which he held a permanent seat as "eternal candidate." Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, made the official announcement, by declaring a decision that, according to the indiscretion of one of its members, was firm and solid from days ago. We know who is the winner, said the academician preserving the anonymity.">Stockholm, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, on Thrusday won the Nobel Prize in Literature, although this year his name was not included in the list of favorites, in which he held a permanent seat as "eternal candidate." Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, made the official announcement, by declaring a decision that, according to the indiscretion of one of its members, was firm and solid from days ago. We know who is the winner, said the academician preserving the anonymity.">

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Vargas Llosa, the new Unexpected Nobel Prize in Literature

Stockholm, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, on Thrusday won the Nobel Prize in Literature, although this year his name was not included in the list of favorites, in which he held a permanent seat as "eternal candidate."

Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, made the official announcement, by declaring a decision that, according to the indiscretion of one of its members, was firm and solid from days ago. We know who is the winner, said the academician preserving the anonymity.

With a solid work in the literary and included in the group of the so-called boom writers, Vargas Llosa has won a place in the Spanish-language literature with books such as The Time of the Hero, (1966), The Green House (1968), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982) and Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), that it considered his masterpiece.

However, the Academy's argument seems to ignore his undeniable literary range to base its decision in a paragraph that points rather to extra-literary considerations.

The award is granted, it expresses the quote, "for his mapping of the structures of power and its scathing images of resistance, revolt and individual defeat."

Early in his career, Vargas Llosa adopted Marxist stances, but he abandoned this school of thought to take a liberal political flank, hypercritical and distanced from the left-wing thinking.

Some people think that the academy gave the prize to Vargas Llosa because this year marks the bicentennial of the independence struggles in the countries of Latin America for its independence from Spain.

The Peruvian novelist currently living in Sweden, without having abandoned their original citizenship. In 1986 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and in 1994 the Cervantes Prize in Literature.
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