Nobel Prize in Literature 2010

The Nobel Prize in Literature was announced this morning. The winner is Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, Vargas Llosa was chosen "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

I have put his book, The War of the End of the World, on the Good Read display shelf for those interested in checking it out. This book takes place in late nineteenth century Canudos, Brazil. It is a book about a society of outcasts with no laws who fight against the establishment of government.

Check out the current and past Nobel Prize winners at http://nobelprize.org/.