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[世界文絡] Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa

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Nobel prize for literature goes to Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist and sometime politician takes literature's highest reward


Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel prize for literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Photograph: Graeme Robertson


The Peruvian writer Maria Vargas Llosa today won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, crowning a career in which he helped spark the global boom in South American literature, launched a failed presidential bid and maintained a 30-year feud with the man he now joins as a Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Cited by the Swedish Academy for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat", the 10m SEK (£1m) award is the culmination of a literary life that began in 1963 with the publication of his novel The Time of the Hero, and includes further books such as Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The Feast of the Goat (2000).

According to the Uruguayan publisher and journalist, Andreas Campomar, the award is "not before time".

"It's something he should have won ages ago," said Campomar, who described himself as "so chuffed for" the author. "I feared that his time might have passed." Campomar acknowleged that a political journey which saw the writer move from supporting the regime of Fidel Castro to running for president on a right-wing platform of reform had made him a "polarising figure", but suggested that the award would be celebrated by many in South America as a way of "putting Latin American literature back on the map".

"First and foremost, he's a great man of letters," he continued. "He has a formidable style, but as with most Latin American writers, at the bottom of all his work, as well as power, and the abuse of power, is the question of cultural identity - what it means to be a European in this Amerindian continent."

Born in 1936 in the provincial city of Arequipa, Vargas Llosa began working as a crime reporter for the Lima newspaper La Crónica at the age of 15. He eloped with his aunt, Julia Urquidi, in 1955, when he was 19 and she 32, a development saluted by his father as a "virile act". He moved to Paris in 1959 and from there to London and Barcelona, working as a Spanish teacher, broadcaster and journalist and as a visiting professor in universities in Europe and America, before returning to Peru in 1975.

He returned to his homeland in fiction far earlier, however. The Leoncio Prado military academy where he went to school inspired The Time of the Hero, the novel that made his name. A vibrant, violent evocation of Peruvian society under military rule, it tells the story of a murder which is covered up to protect the school's reputation. The book was ceremonially burned in the grounds of the academy, and its author barred from the grounds.

His third novel, Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), tackles the links between church and state, tracing the role of a minister in the murder of a notorious figure in the Peruvian underworld. The author and critic Jay Parini, a friend of Vargas Llosa's for some years, called the novel "a consummate portrait of Peru under the malign dictatorship of Manuel Odría. One got to know Peruvian society from such a variety of angles, and the novel is so vivid on the page, fresh and real." He is, Parini suggested, "surely one of the least controversial of writers to get the prize. His industry and intelligence are models of their kind. He is a bright spirit, brave and ebullient, and his novels and stories will last."

Vargas Llosa's first marriage ended in divorce in 1964. A year later, he married Patricia Llosa, and wrote a study of his friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who became godfather to Vargas Llosa's son. The friendship ended in 1976, after a brawl in a Mexican cinema, though Vargas Llosa allowed an excerpt from his study of Marquez to be published as part of a celebratory edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude, to mark the 40th anniversary of its publication in 2007.

A succession of novels, short stories and plays cemented his literary reputation, but as his fame grew he became increasingly involved in politics, moving steadily away from the Marxism of his early years. As his profile rose he began hosting a talk show on Peruvian television, and backed the conservative government of Fernando Belaúnde Terry from 1980-1985, turning down an invitation in 1984 to become Terry's prime minister.

In 1987 he led protests against a plan to nationalise the Peruvian financial system, drawing 120,000 people to a rally, and launching his own presidential campaign. After three years of death threats and abusive phone calls, however, he was defeated in the second round by the eventual victor, Alberto Fujimori. Vargas Llosa left the country within hours of a defeat he blamed on a "dirty war", taking up Spanish citizenship in 1993. "I didn't lie," he explained. "I said we needed radical reforms and social sacrifices, and in the beginning it worked. But then came the dirty war, presenting my reforms as something that would destroy jobs. It was very effective, especially with the poorest of society. In Latin America we prefer promises to reality."

According to Ladbrokes's spokesman, David Williams, bookmakers have reacted with a sigh of relief, after the judges "confounded the punters and plucked a relative outsider out of the mix".

"The gambles on Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Cormac McCarthy were nothing short of staggering: we saw more money bet on the contest this year than in its entire history," he said. "We'll send a crate of champagne to the winner because he's helped us dodge a massive payout."


News from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/ ... -mario-vargas-llosa





秘魯大文豪略薩成諾貝爾文學獎得主

被形容為天才的秘魯作家略薩(Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa),拿下本屆諾貝爾文學獎。

諾貝爾評審委員會7日讚揚74歲略薩的筆下作品結構有力,能夠深刻描述個人的抗爭和挫折。瑞典文学院常任秘書恩隆德更形容他是位天才作家,內容能夠打動讀者,是西班牙語世界中功不可沒的大文豪之一。

正在美國紐約的略薩,獲悉是2010年諾貝爾文學獎的得主,感到十分開心。他將獲得150萬美元獎金。

1936年3月生於拉丁美洲秘魯南部的略薩,一生從事創作,至今有卅部以上作品,涉及小說、戲劇、散文、政論雜文,以及導演舞台劇、電影,還有主持廣播電視節目、從事政治。他於1995年榮獲西班牙語文學世界中,最高榮譽的塞萬提斯獎。



消息自: http://www.atchinese.com/index.p ... id=22&Itemid=31

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