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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On October 7, 2010, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
On October 7, 2010 (August 30, 2010 in the lunar calendar), Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in the city of Arequipa (Peru's second largest city), where the provincial government of Región Arequipa is located in southern Peru. His mother, Dora Llosa Ureta, and his father, Ernesto Vargas Maldonado. In 1937, he moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia at the age of 1 with his mother and family (Cochabamba), returned to Piura Province in his native Peru in 1946 In the city of Piura, where the provincial government is located, at Salesino School Colegio Salesiano studied. In 1947, he moved to the capital Lima and transferred to Colegio LaSalle. From 1950 to 1952, he studied at the (National) Leoncio Prado Military School in Lima. Later, he completed secondary school studies at Colegio Nacional San Miguel de Piura in Piura, Peru. In 1953, he entered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos of Peru in Lima with a double major in literature and law. In 1957, he entered the same school's Institute of Linguistics as a postgraduate student. In mid-1958, he studied Nicaragua writers; The poet Rubén Dario received a degree in literature (linguistics) with his thesis ("Interpretation of the Basics of Rubén Dario" Basesparaunainterpretaciónde Rubén Darío (equivalent to a Master of Arts from the Institute of Linguistics in Taiwan). In the same year, he left his native Peru and moved to Europe. He lived as a guest in France (mainly in Paris), Spain (mainly in Barcelona) and other countries (later he settled in London, England for a long time). In 1971, Vargas Llosa obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from the University of Madrid, Spain, for studying the doctoral thesis of Colombia writer García Marquez: History of the Godslayer (This degree is a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature, not an honorary Doctor of Literature. He is also awarded honorary titles by many universities such as the University of London, Yale University and Harvard University in the United States. In 2003, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom also awarded him an honorary doctorate. Vargas Llosa grew up abroad when he was a child. During his youth, he attended military schools. When he was young, he worked as a bank clerk, journalist, editor, special contributor, library cataloger, etc. In 1955, when she was less than 20 years old, she fell in love and married her aunt's sister Julia Urquidi Illanes (born in 1926, Bolivian), and divorced in 1963. He remarried to his cousin Patricia Llosa Urquidi in 1965, and remains until now. He has 2 sons with his second wife: á; lvaro Vargas Llosa and Gonzalo Vargas Llosa;1 daughter: Morgana Vargas Llosa (children are arranged in order of birth, the two sons are older brothers, his first child á; lvaro Vargas Llosa was born in 1966 and is also a writer, his second child was born in 1967, and the younger daughter was born in 1974). Vargas Llosa has served as a faculty member at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (hired in 1977), and has also served as a visiting faculty member at the University of London in the United Kingdom (1967 and 1969), the University of Colombia in the United States (1975), and Harvard University in the United States (1992). Many famous universities and research institutes in many countries often invite him to give guest lectures and research. Vargas Llosa is now also a fellow at King's College London, UK. On October 7, 2010, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it would award Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the 107th writer in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his "cartographic depiction of power structures and exquisite descriptions of personal resistance." News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1g5j.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-13:52] 访问:81
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