Mario Vargas Llosa Gets Nobel Prize

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NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com)- The Swedish Academy has named Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa as the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in the category of literature. The Nobel Prize is another feather in the cap of Mario Vargas Llosa, who is regarded as one of the highly-acclaimed authors of the Spanish-speaking world and has been honored with a number of awards over the years. The 74-year-old author who came to the limelight way back in the 1960’s, is known to have penned down as many as 30 novels, plays and essays.

Following the announcement on Thursday that Mario Vargas Llosa has been bestowed with the Nobel Prize in literature, the renowned author who was holding a news conference in Manhattan divulged to reporters that the win has come as a total surprise to him as he had never expected to bag the much-coveted award. At the same time, the 74-year-old author also went on to add that the highest honor of the literary world was not going to change his writing, his styles or his themes but noted that it would transform his daily life. In the press conference, Mario Vargas Llosa also expressed hope that he would be able to handle the excitement that revolves around winning the prestigious Nobel Prize.

Apart from his literary works that to large extent focuses on the political turmoil of Latin America, Mario Vargas Llosa is a known political activist who had run for the presidency of Peru in the year 1990 but failed to win the elections. The noted author is also the proud recipient of Cervantes Prize, considered to be the highest literary honor in Spanish.