Prize announcement
Announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature to Mario Vargas Llosa, presented by Professor Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 7 October 2010.
Interview
After the announcement, Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, told senior editor Simon Frantz that Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the great Latin American storytellers – a master of dialogue who has been searching for the elusive concept known as the total novel, and who believes in the power of fiction to improve the world.
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