The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, an
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, surrounded by the international media when announcing the Nobel Prize in literature 2010.
The Nobel diploma awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel prize medal awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa.
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro as "master of the contemporary short story." She was the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the prize.
2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
…odds included perennial favourites such as American novelists Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Pynchon, Canadians Alice Munro (awarded in 2013) and Margaret Atwood, British author A. S. Byatt, and the long time favourite Mario Vargas Llosa, who was given 25/1 odds to win the prize. The Nobel…
"master of the contemporary short story."