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Vargas Llosa happy to get to end of Nobel Prize "fairytale"
Nov 25, 2011, 19:03 GMT
Mexico City - Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, described the experience Friday as 'a fairytale,' but said he is happy to get to the end.
'It is a sort of fairytale which lasts one year, and then there is someone else who takes over from one. Fortunately so, because otherwise I think it would be a real tragedy,' Vargas Llosa said in an interview with Mexican television network Televisa.
He explained that, for all the joy it brings, the Nobel Prize totally changes an author's routine, and takes away from him 'not just the time to write, but the time to read.'
'For me, reading is as important as writing,' he said.
Swedish poet Tomas Transtomer was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is to formally receive the award on December 10 in Stockholm.
'For next year, I have not accepted even remotely as many invitations as I have accepted this year, so I can get back to work,' Vargas Llosa said.
The author of Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and The Green House, among other works, is to open the Guadalajara International Book Fair on Sunday.
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