Nobel Prize winner.

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist and writer, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Royal Swedish Academy commended Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Author of more than 30 novels and plays and a multitude of essays, his most prominent works, among them Conversation in a Cathedral, The Feast of the Goat , and The War of the End of the World , attest to the Swedish Academy's basis of judgment. His...