<p>Princeton</a> University - Princeton Distinguished Visitor Vargas Llosa wins Nobel in literature</p>
<p>"Acclaimed Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who is spending this semester as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton University's Program in Latin American Studies, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. He also is a visiting lecturer in Princeton's Program in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts.</p>
<p>Vargas Llosa was the only winner of this year's Nobel "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in announcing the award today.</p>
<p>At Princeton this fall, Vargas Llosa is teaching a course in Spanish on techniques of the novel. He also is teaching a class on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that examines the writer's prose, his techniques and the sources he used in his short stories. Vargas Llosa has had a relationship with the Program in Latin American Studies for several years and taught at the University in 1992. In addition, his literary papers -- including notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of novels and other writing -- are housed in Firestone Library. . . . (continued)"</p>
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<p>Vargas Llosa has had a close association with Princeton over the years as have many of the other important Latin American writers during the last half century and while he can't quite be 'claimed' by Princeton as an alum or full professor, his presence on campus this semester is wonderful timing and a great benefit to students in creative writing.</p>
<p>You might remember that another famed writer and now Professor Emeritus, Toni Morrison, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.</p>
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