Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel literature prize, Announcement - Video and News

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Literature Nobel Prize 2010 Announcement - Mario Vargas Llosa (In Swedish, English and Spanish). Source: NobelPrize.org.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel literature prize
STOCKHOLM, October 7, 2010
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland. Vargas Llosa, 74, has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." In 1995, he won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honor in Spanish. Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the prestigious 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) Nobel Prize in literature since Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez won in 1982.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".