Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, when the Academy of honor of the greatest writers of the Spanish-speaking world and an openly political activist who once ran for president in the country of origin of the problems .
Vargas Llosa, 74, has more than 30 novels, plays and essays, written as "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House". In 1995 he won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish language.Vargas Llosa is the first South African winner of the prestigious 10 million kronor (1.5 million), Nobel Prize for Literature, the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez won in 1982.
"I'm very surprised that I did not expect," Vargas Llosa told Spanish radio station, adding that he thought it was a joke when he received the call."It 's been years since my name is mentioned once, he said." Of course, there's a surprise, a pleasant surprise, but it was a surprise. "
The Swedish Academy announced it was honored with the award of "power structures and (for) the painful images of rebellion and resistance of individual defeat." Secretary of State, Peter Englund, called him "a talented storyteller," whose writing touches the reader.
"Her books are often very complex in its composition with different perspectives, different voices and different types of climate," said Englund. "It has to do with a new way, have contributed to the art of storytelling to develop."
Over the past six years, the Academy of European and five Nobel Prize turkish, sparking criticism that it was too Eurocentric. Last year the prize was awarded to German writer Herta Müller.Click the image to see more pictures of Mario Vargas Llosa see The Swedish Academy bookmarks writers also were charged, despite the 16-member panel said the decision to move the literary value.
Vargas Llosa has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize - which has won some of the world's most prestigious literary West and his works have been published in 31 languages, including translation into Chinese, Croatian, Hebrew and Arabic.
writing style is almost universally admired in Latin America, but a gradual shift from left to embrace a free market capitalism brought him into conflict with many of the intellectual elite of the hemisphere.
Vargas Llosa has joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and fights often throw darts to Fidel Castro of Cuba Described centrist annoyed friend Octavio Paz, the Mexican literature in recent years, the fun political system of Mexico - which in turn is dominated by a party - ". The perfect dictatorship," as
In a famous incident in 1976 in Mexico City, Vargas Llosa beaten by a former friend of Garcia Marquez, who later derided as "courtier de Castro." It was never clear whether the struggle for political or personal controversy, and the two reportedly have not spoken in decades.
After the announcement of the Nobel, which is attributed a comment about the Twitter account of Garcia Marquez said. "Now we are still in Spanish, but Garcia Marquez Foundation, said in Cartagena, Colombia, the Twitter account does not belong to the author.
There was no response to the granting of García Márquez, who rarely speaks to the media.
Vargas Llosa has taught and lectured at various universities in the United States, South America and Europe and have spent this semester at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Fellow Nobel laureate and member of the faculty of Princeton University Toni Morrison praised the choice as a "brilliant choice."
Jonathan Galassi, president of Vargas Llosa American publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, called it "one of the greatest writers of the world -. An eloquent champion of human freedom unprecedented"
Was born Vargas Llosa as a leader among the "trees" or "New Wave" of Latin American writers burst on the literary scene in 1963 (the Dogs and the City), the revolutionary first novel "The city and the dogs," which on the basis of his experience in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Peru.
The book won the Spanish Critics Prize and the Peruvian army's wrath. One thousand copies of the novel then burned by the military authorities, with some general ask the wrong book, Vargas Llosa, a communist.
The Military Academy was the discovery of hell, "said Vargas Llosa later.
The 15 people were night police reporter. Even in his youth, he joined a communist cell and burned a 33-year-old Julia Urquidi - Bolivia sister, uncle-law. Later, inspired by the marriage of nine years of successful graphic novel "Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter of" writing (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter).
After the divorce, Vargas Llosa in 1965, he married his cousin Patricia Llosa, 10 years his junior, and together they had three children.
In 1970, those convicted of Castro in Cuba and gradually returned to his political career in the direction of free-market conservatism. Vargas Llosa has drawn mainly from Peru, his homeland, but prefer to live abroad in exile, about a year at a time.
In 1990 he ran for the presidency of Peru with a ticket to the activity of the height of the bloody Shining Path insurgency, but lost the election in a little-known academic Fujimori, Alberto.
Discouraged by the broad public support for the iron rule of the Playground Fujimori, Vargas Llosa has been left at home and took Spanish nationality, lives in Madrid and London. He said a penthouse in the Peruvian capital Lima, overlooking the Pacific, but rather a low profile during a visit home, long after Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000 fell from the massive corruption in government.
1994 Vargas Llosa was the first Latin American writers Spanish Academy, which has elected to his post in 1996.
"Spain is very generous with me," Vargas Llosa said in an interview on the radio in Peru. "I wrote and published my first stories."
The 2010 Nobel Prize announcements began Monday with the medicine prize went to the United Kingdom, Professor Robert Edwards for the investigation of fertility who brought the first test tube baby.
Russian-born scientist Andre Geim and Novoselov Constantine won the prize for physics experiments with innovative graphics, stronger and thinner than the material of humanity.
The chemistry was awarded to Richard Heck U.S. and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for the design of techniques for combining atoms.
The Peace Prize on Friday and the prize money will be released next Monday.
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