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10-08-2010, 04:40 PM
Dominicans are celebrating the award of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature to Peruvian author and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa. One of his more recent works, The Feast of the Goat (2000), tells about the horrors of the Trujillo dictatorship and was written after months of research by Vargas Llosa, who took up residence in Santo Domingo.
President Leonel Fernandez congratulated Vargas Llosa on the award. "It is a great honor for a Latin American author of the caliber of Mario Vargas Llosa to have won a Nobel Prize. His works portraying our people so acutely and with so much talent have traveled the world".
Fernandez said that the Dominican people have close emotional ties with the author because The Feast of the Goat was based on an episode of Dominican history.
Vargas Llosa has been a leading Latin American novelist since publishing his 1963 novel, The Time of the Hero. He has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays. Works that are considered masterpieces include Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The Feast of the Goat (2000).
Vargas Llosa joins the ranks of several Latin American and Caribbean authors to have won a Nobel Prize for Literature: Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967), Chile's Pablo Neruda (1971), Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982), Mexico's Octavio Paz (1990) and St. Lucia's Derek Walcott (1992).
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President Leonel Fernandez congratulated Vargas Llosa on the award. "It is a great honor for a Latin American author of the caliber of Mario Vargas Llosa to have won a Nobel Prize. His works portraying our people so acutely and with so much talent have traveled the world".
Fernandez said that the Dominican people have close emotional ties with the author because The Feast of the Goat was based on an episode of Dominican history.
Vargas Llosa has been a leading Latin American novelist since publishing his 1963 novel, The Time of the Hero. He has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays. Works that are considered masterpieces include Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The Feast of the Goat (2000).
Vargas Llosa joins the ranks of several Latin American and Caribbean authors to have won a Nobel Prize for Literature: Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967), Chile's Pablo Neruda (1971), Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982), Mexico's Octavio Paz (1990) and St. Lucia's Derek Walcott (1992).
www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/10/7/345236/Mario-Vargas-Llosa-visto-en-RD (http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/10/7/345236/Mario-Vargas-Llosa-visto-en-RD)
www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=263607 (http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=263607)
www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/books/08nobel.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/books/08nobel.html)
www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2010/10/8/161788/Premio-Nobel-a-un-amigo-de-RD (http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2010/10/8/161788/Premio-Nobel-a-un-amigo-de-RD)
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