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Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in literature for Peru
Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in literature for Peru
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Irish Times
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EILEEN BATTERSBY ABOUT THE only surprise attached to the announcement that Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, narrowly defeated liberal presidential candidate and author of The War of the End of the World amp 65533 1981, translation 1984 , has been awarded this year s Nobel Prize for Literature, is that he hadn t already won it. Throughout an internationally bestselling career which has seen a steady output of sophisticated, intelligent, at times erotic and always ambitious fiction, Vargas Llosa has retained a high public profile as a commentator critical of the politics of his country - most particularly the poverty which has featured in hisEILEEN BATTERSBY ABOUT THE only surprise attached to the announcement that Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, narrowly defeated liberal presidential candidate and author of The War of the End of the World amp 65533 1981, translation 1984 , has been awarded this year s Nobel Prize for Literature, is that he hadn t already won it. Throughout an internationally bestselling career which has seen a steady output of sophisticated, intelligent, at times erotic and always ambitious fiction, Vargas Llosa has retained a high public profile as a commentator critical of the politics of his country - most particularly the poverty which has featured in his