By STOCKHOLM - Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland.. Vargas Llosa, 74, has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." In 1995, he won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honor in Spanish.. He is the first South American winner of the prestigious $1.5-million Nobel literature prize since Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez won in 1982 and the first Spanish-language writer to win since Mexico's Octavio Paz in 1990.. "I am very grateful to the Swedish Academy. It is totally unexpected," Vargas Llosa told reporters in New York. "I think it is, for any writer, a great encouragement, a recognition of a world.". The Swedish Academy said it honored him for mapping the "structures of power and [for] his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.". The Swedish Academy has previously been accused of favoring left-leaning writers. The 16-member panel says its decisions are made on literary merit alone.. Vargas Llosa emerged as a leader among the "Boom" or "New Wave" of Latin American writers, bursting onto the literary scene in 1963 with his groundbreaking debut novel "The Time of the Hero" (La Ciudad y los Perros), which builds on his experiences at Peruvian military academy Leoncio Prado.
On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.
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Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 15: LI's top basketball players On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.
On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.
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Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 15: LI's top basketball players On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.
