Peruvian wins Nobel Prize in literature

Friday, October 8, 2010

STOCKHOLM -- Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland.

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