The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Prize share: 1/1
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"
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