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Spain hails Nobel win for first Spanish-language author in 20 years
Oct 7, 2010, 14:59 GMT
Madrid - Spanish cultural institutes and personalities on Thursday hailed the Nobel awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa, the first Spanish-language author to win the prize in 20 years.
Spanish Royal Academy president Victor Garcia de la Concha described the Nobel as a 'great joy' which the academy - the official custodian of the Spanish language - had awaited 'anxiously' for years.
Garcia de la Concha described Vargas Llosa as 'one of the great innovators of Spanish-language fiction.'
Carmen Caffarel, director of the Cervantes Institute which seeks to propagate Spanish culture, said the Nobel awarded to the Peruvian author was 'the fairest in the recent years.'
Spanish author Javier Marias described Vargas Llosa as 'one of the greatest novelists of the 20th and 21st century, with a work capacity comparable to those of (19th-century French authors) Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert, whom he admires.'
Vargas Llosa was the first Spanish-language writer to win the Nobel since Mexico's Octavio Paz in 1990.
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