The truth, that the new prize Nobel of literature 2010 corresponds to this extraordinary Peruvian who was informed of the decision of the Swedish Academy in the United States, where teaches during this semester at Princeton University, on novel and the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The Academy highlighted the work of Vargas Llosa his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of individual resistance, revolt and defeat. Many years ago I was sure that it was not candidate () in such a way that the surprise was total, so this morning I thought that it might be a prank call that man who told me that he was the general Secretary of the Swedish Academy, yesterday told the writer in a press conference (see separate). For some time, however, his name appeared as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize. Although this year, it not occupied the first places in the speculations of journalists, editors and critics. As it tells the newspaper the nation of Argentina, Vargas Llosa He was born in Arequipa, Peru, March 28, 1936, to a family of middle class and Spanish ancestors. He became an important figure during the boom in Latin American literature in the 1960s.
Throughout his extensive career, totaling more than 30 works, was awarded several prizes, among them the most important Spanish language: the Prince of Asturias (1986) and the Cervantes (1994). For his first book of stories, chiefs, he obtained the Premio Leopoldo Alas (1959). Meanwhile for his second novel, the Green House, which appeared in 1965, earned the Romulo Gallegos International Prize in 1967. Mario Vargas Llosa is an extraordinary connoisseur of the language and a portentous demiurge of narrative techniques, the thoroughness with which handles his prose and the always successful use of games and narrative experiments erected it as one of the most seasoned contemporary literary writers.