07:27 | Stockholm, Dec. 10 (ANDINA).
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer and literary giant in the Spanish-speaking world, said the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature that he will receive Friday belongs to all Peruvians.
Vargas Llosa was grateful for the love and enthusiasm with which Peruvians have taken his selection as Nobel Prize winner in literature.
Thousands of Peruvians will watch the award ceremony live on giant screens set up in Lima and various parts of the country such as Arequipa and Piura.
Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”
"Peruvians see this Nobel prize as theirs... and in fact it is their Nobel," noted Vargas Llosa, who said he carries Peru deep inside him in his lecture on Tuesday in Stockholm.
The author of The Dream of the Celt also confessed to feeling nervous a few hours of receiving the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf of 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.
The Nobel laureate´s daughter, Morgana Vargas Losa, also said she was excited and nervous about the momentous event which recognizes the prodigious work of his father.
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Published: 12/10/2010