Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, as the academy honoured one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland.
A group of prominent Peruvian writers, led by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, signed an open letter against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and in support of nationalist Ollanta Humala.