06:38 | Stockholm, Dec. 10 (ANDINA).
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa will receive the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Friday at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.
Vargas Llosa and other Nobel laureates will take center stage in Stockholm on 10 December when they receive the Nobel Prize Medal, Nobel Prize Diploma and document confirming the Nobel Prize amount from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be attended by members of the Swedish Academy, prominent figures from the world of culture, representatives of the Government of Peru, and the family and friends of the 74-year-old Peruvian writer.
Thousands of Peruvians will follow this historic event for the country on giant screens set up in Lima and other parts of Peru.
This is the first time that a Peruvian-born citizen receives the Nobel Prize in literature, which has been previously awarded to great writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Herta Mueller, Heinrich Böll, Gabriela Mistral and Miguel Angel Asturias, among others.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2010 is awarded to the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and histrenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Published: 12/10/2010