Nobel Prize in Literature: Which Latin American writers have won?

8. Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)

The 2010 winner, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the greats of Latin American literature, a writer fully of the stature of other regional giants such as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabríel Garcia Márquez. In addition to his career as a novelist, essayist, playwright, and journalist, Vargas Llosa is also known worldwide as a politician. Vargas Llosa has written more than a dozen novels in addition to many other books and stories. Vargas Llosa's varied work embraces a multiplicity of styles but can best be described as deeply political, with a focus on questions of power and its dangers.

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