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President Calderón Congratulates Writer Mario Vargas Llosa
Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República go to original October 11, 2010


| Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa attends a news conference Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, in New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan) |  | Mexican President Felipe Calderón congratulated Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa on winning the Nobel Literature Prize 2010.
 The President said it is a great day for Spanish literature, since one of its great contemporary writers has received the highest award for universal literature.
 He hailed Mario Vargas Llosa as a man of letters, an intellectual committed to liberal values, a prolific writer who has won several awards, and a journalist and essayist, whose work is a vital source of understanding and reflection of our complex political and social reality. |

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