Llosa’s Nobel win brings delight to his writing fans
Literature, for Peruvian writer Maria Vargas Llosa, has been like a akin to fire. The firebrand writer and one-time politician, who made power and its structures, humanity and its contours, the focal points of his writing, has won the Nobel Prize for literature.
The Swedish Academy honoured the 74-year-old author “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”
Among others in the reckoning were South Korean poet Ko Un, Syria’s Adonis, Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o and American novelist Cormac McCarthy.
Llosa’s win has come as a wave of delight for his lovers. Author Soumya Bhattacharya (If I could Tell You) finds Llosa “dark and trenchant”.
“He is a real giant,” he says and adds that while politics does matter when it comes to literary awards, as it did in the case of Orhan Pamuk, writing shouldn’t be seen through the prism of politics.
Author Annie Zadie (Known Turf) says the Nobel will open the world to his writing and its political, geographical landscapes.
“After Marquez, Llosa is the best-known Latin Amerian writer, says Westland Ltd CEO, Gautam Padmanabhan.
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