China News Service, October 7 — According to foreign media reports, on October 7 local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
Introduction: Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa is a writer and poet with dual Peruvian and Spanish citizenship. He has written novels, plays, essays, poetry, literary criticism, and political journalism. He has also directed stage plays and films, hosted radio and television programs, and been involved in politics. His complex and imaginative narrative techniques, combined with rich, diverse, and profound content, have earned him the title of “Master of Structural Realism.” In Taiwan, his name is often translated as Yosa or Rosa. “Mario” is his given name, “Vargas” is his father’s surname, and “Llosa” is his mother’s surname, representing the families of his father and mother respectively.
Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936, in Arequipa (the second largest city in Peru), the capital of the Arequipa Region (Región Arequipa) in southern Peru. His mother was Dora Llosa Ureta and his father was Ernesto Vargas Maldonado.
Mario Vargas Llosa
In 1937, at just over one year old, he moved with his mother’s family to Cochabamba, Bolivia. In 1946, he returned to his homeland of Peru to the city of Piura, the capital of the Piura Region (Región Piura), where he studied at the Colegio Salesiano. In 1947, he moved to the capital, Lima, and transferred to the Colegio La Salle. From 1950 to 1952, he attended the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima. Later, he completed his secondary education at the Colegio Nacional San Miguel de Piura in Piura, Peru.
In 1953, he entered the National University of San Marcos in Lima, double-majoring in Literature and Law. In 1957, he entered the university’s Institute of Linguistics as a graduate student. In mid-1958, he obtained his degree in Literature (Linguistics) with a thesis titled Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío (Bases for an Interpretation of Rubén Darío), a study of the Nicaraguan writer and poet. In the same year, he left Peru and moved to Europe, living in France (primarily Paris) and Spain (primarily Barcelona), among other countries (he later settled in London, England, for a long period).
In 1971, Vargas Llosa obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid with a doctoral thesis on the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez titled García Márquez: historia de un deicidio (García Márquez: History of a Deicide). This degree is a PhD in literary research, not an honorary doctorate. He also holds honorary degrees from many universities, including the University of London, Yale University, and Harvard University. In 2003, Oxford University also awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Vargas Llosa grew up abroad during his childhood, attended military school during his adolescence, and worked as a bank clerk, journalist, editor, contributing writer, and library cataloger in his youth.
In 1955, before the age of 20, he fell in love with and married his aunt’s sister, Julia Urquidi Illanes (born 1926, Bolivian); they divorced in 1963. In 1965, he remarried his cousin Patricia Llosa Urquidi, with whom he remains today. He has two sons with his second wife: Álvaro Vargas Llosa and Gonzalo Vargas Llosa; and one daughter: Morgana Vargas Llosa. (The children are listed in order of birth: the two sons are the elder siblings; his first child Álvaro Vargas Llosa was born in 1966 and is also a writer, the second child was born in 1967, and the youngest daughter was born in 1974).
Vargas Llosa has held teaching positions at the University of Cambridge (appointed in 1977) and has served as a visiting professor at the University of London (1967 and 1969), Columbia University (1975), and Harvard University (1992).
Many famous universities and research institutes around the world frequently invite him for guest lectures and research.
Vargas Llosa currently also serves as a Fellow of King’s College London.
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