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Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature.
The 74-year-old man has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays. He is the first South American winner of the prize since 1982 when it went to Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the previous six years, the academy awarded the 10 million kronor (£938,000) prize to five Europeans and one Turk, sparking criticism that it was too Euro-centric.
The Swedish Academy's Peter said Vargas Llosa was "an excellent gifted story-teller". He added that the writer was in New York and was told by telephone that he had won the prize'. "I will try to survive the Nobel Prize," he joked during a news conference later on Thursday. "It was a total surprise." But he said the honor would not affect his craft.
Born in the town of Arequipa, Vargas Llosa took Spanish nationality in 1993—three years after an
