Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize
By Karl Ritter | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-08 07:53
File photo of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaking during a lecture in Cartagena on Jan 30. Files / Jairo Castilla / Reuters |
STOCKHOLM - Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday as the academy honored a man who is one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and a former presidential candidate in his homeland.
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