<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - mario-vargas-llosa</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/mario-vargas-llosa</link><description>Newsvine - mario-vargas-llosa</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:48:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:39:32 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Vargas Llosa says he tried '50 Shades' fiction</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa may be a Nobel laureate, but he says he has tried to write erotic novels "without the same success" as EL James, who wrote the best-selling "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Claudia Torrens ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Claudia Torrens ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15192920-vargas-llosa-says-he-tried-50-shades-fiction</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15192920-vargas-llosa-says-he-tried-50-shades-fiction</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>books</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:47:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3c30551d-8c0e-42f5-95f5-2927aaeaff5e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="318" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3c30551d-8c0e-42f5-95f5-2927aaeaff5e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This April 21, 2011 file photo shows Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, of Peru, speaking during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Varhas Llosa was a guest speaker at the Americas Society, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 to discuss his latest novel &quot;The Dream of the Celt.&quot;  He says he has tried to write erotic novels without the same success as EL James, who wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. He also said he was surprised to see &quot;Fifty Shades&quot; books at the window displays of bookstores in Ireland, where he presented his latest novel &quot;The Dream of Celt&quot; in June. James' erotic novels are currently bestsellers in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Chile and Colombia, among other Spanish-speaking countries.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6bf942e3-fdc2-4a3c-8c1d-8f9e1631dc85.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="369" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6bf942e3-fdc2-4a3c-8c1d-8f9e1631dc85.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This April 21, 2011 file photo shows Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, of Peru, speaking during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Varhas Llosa was a guest speaker at the Americas Society, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 to discuss his latest novel &quot;The Dream of the Celt.&quot;  He says he has tried to write erotic novels without the same success as EL James, who wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. He also said he was surprised to see &quot;Fifty Shades&quot; books at the window displays of bookstores in Ireland, where he presented his latest novel &quot;The Dream of Celt&quot; in June. James' erotic novels are currently bestsellers in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Chile and Colombia, among other Spanish-speaking countries.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa donates library to Peruvian hometown</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa says he'll donate the 30,000 books of his personal library to his hometown of Arequipa.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10911090-vargas-llosa-donates-library-to-peruvian-hometown</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/28/10911090-vargas-llosa-donates-library-to-peruvian-hometown</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>peru</category><category>library</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:53:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Activists try to protect bullfighting in Spain</title>
<description><![CDATA[Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy and Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa are among 590,000 people who have signed a petition to Parliament urging bullfighting to be protected nationally and for a regional ban to be overturned.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10811765-activists-try-to-protect-bullfighting-in-spain</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10811765-activists-try-to-protect-bullfighting-in-spain</guid><category>eu</category><category>spain</category><category>ban</category><category>world-news</category><category>mariano-rajoy</category><category>bullfighting</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:54:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In China, Vargas Llosa criticizes authoritarianism</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authoritarian governments corrupt society, Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa told students in China, where state media covered his speech without mentioning his political comments.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Watt]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Louise Watt]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/15/6861375-in-china-vargas-llosa-criticizes-authoritarianism</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/15/6861375-in-china-vargas-llosa-criticizes-authoritarianism</guid><category>china</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:50:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In Argentina, Vargas Llosa insists on free speech</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa thanked Argentina's president Thursday for preventing Argentine intellectuals from blocking his keynote address at the nation's annual book fair.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Debora Rey]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Debora Rey]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/21/6510128-in-argentina-vargas-llosa-insists-on-free-speech</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/21/6510128-in-argentina-vargas-llosa-insists-on-free-speech</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>argentina</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize-winning</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:52:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b66b9129-2f8e-401f-9cb7-ed1cf846b306.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b66b9129-2f8e-401f-9cb7-ed1cf846b306.jpg" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa delivers a speech  during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4887fef0-5216-41c5-8d96-50f6e7ec51f3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="369" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4887fef0-5216-41c5-8d96-50f6e7ec51f3.jpg" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa speaks during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3608afc7-94a8-4487-a499-74dc13b2f4ca.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3608afc7-94a8-4487-a499-74dc13b2f4ca.jpg" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa speaks during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Peru's Vargas Llosa: I won't vote for Fujimori</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa says he just might vote for Ollanta Humala in Peru's presidential runoff election.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/12/6459868-perus-vargas-llosa-i-wont-vote-for-fujimori</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/12/6459868-perus-vargas-llosa-i-wont-vote-for-fujimori</guid><category>peru</category><category>election</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize-winning</category><category>ollanta-humala</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:48:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa undeterred by Argentine critics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa plans to preside over the opening of Argentina's premier book fair next month despite protests against him.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/03/6181256-vargas-llosa-undeterred-by-argentine-critics</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/03/6181256-vargas-llosa-undeterred-by-argentine-critics</guid><category>argentina</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Mar 2011 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa visit stirs controversy in Argentina</title>
<description><![CDATA[The choice of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to inaugurate Argentina's annual book fair is turning into a political challenge for President Cristina Fernandez.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Almudena Calatrava]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Almudena Calatrava]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6173528-vargas-llosa-visit-stirs-controversy-in-argentina</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/02/6173528-vargas-llosa-visit-stirs-controversy-in-argentina</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>argentina</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><category>cristina-fernandez</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:04:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa praises Latin American's democracy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peruvian Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa on Tuesday praised Latin America for becoming more democratic, but criticized Venezuela and Cuba and called the government's in Bolivia and Nicaragua "clownish."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malin Rising]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Malin Rising]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/07/5606508-vargas-llosa-praises-latin-americans-democracy</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/07/5606508-vargas-llosa-praises-latin-americans-democracy</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>sweden</category><category>latin-america</category><category>latin-american</category><category>world-news</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><category>peruvian-nobel</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:57:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/563d5e6d-87cf-4891-95e1-0df1a0e95af9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="409" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/563d5e6d-87cf-4891-95e1-0df1a0e95af9.jpg" width="120" height="123" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mario Vargas Llosa delivers his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday Dec. 7 2010 ahead of the Nobel awarding ceremony on Friday. The 2010 Nobel Literature laureate is a Peruvian and Spanish citizen. The statue behind him pictures King Gustaf III, founder of the academy. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Henrik Montgomery)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1cb0dc07-0d33-47f6-b5c9-e8b37a2992e7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1cb0dc07-0d33-47f6-b5c9-e8b37a2992e7.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mario Vargas Llosa delivers his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday Dec. 7 2010 ahead of the Nobel awarding ceremony on Friday. The 2010 Nobel Literature laureate is a Peruvian and Spanish citizen. The statue behind him pictures King Gustaf III, founder of the academy. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Henrik Montgomery)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9bb43f25-8ac2-4ab0-81f1-207ecb7395a7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="322" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9bb43f25-8ac2-4ab0-81f1-207ecb7395a7.jpg" width="120" height="191" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mario Vargas Llosa delivers his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden Tuesday Dec. 7 2010 ahead of the Nobel awarding ceremony on Friday. The 2010 Nobel Literature laureate is a Peruvian and Spanish citizen. The statue behind him pictures King Gustaf III, founder of the academy. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Henrik Montgomery)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a647a7e4-af14-4bfe-b816-f685c56a3b45.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a647a7e4-af14-4bfe-b816-f685c56a3b45.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mario Vargas Llosa holds his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010.  The 2010 Nobel Literature laureate, Llosa is a Peruvian and Spanish citizen, and will receive the Nobel prize on upcoming Friday. The statue behind him pictures King Gustaf III, founder of the academy. (AP photo/Scanpix Sweden/henrik Montgomery)   SWEDEN OUT&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa's birth home honored</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peru has declared the house where Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa was born to be part of the nation's "cultural patrimony."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/18/5490194-nobel-laureate-vargas-llosas-birth-home-honored</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/18/5490194-nobel-laureate-vargas-llosas-birth-home-honored</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>peru</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize-winning</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><category>llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:26:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa says Nobel Prize has changed life</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa says winning the Nobel Prize in literature last month has changed his life but not his eagerness to write.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/03/5402305-vargas-llosa-says-nobel-prize-has-changed-life</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/03/5402305-vargas-llosa-says-nobel-prize-has-changed-life</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>spain</category><category>nobel-prize</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:47:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/01fc8d88-5fad-4db0-8b65-a876c59f50a5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="369" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/01fc8d88-5fad-4db0-8b65-a876c59f50a5.jpg" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru speaks about his new novel &quot;El Sueno del Celta&quot; or &quot;The Dream of the Celt&quot; in Madrid, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e064e2d1-b8f0-4415-93a6-5149d41c4050.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e064e2d1-b8f0-4415-93a6-5149d41c4050.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru speaks about his new novel &quot;El Sueno del Celta&quot; or &quot;The Dream of the Celt&quot; in Madrid, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b0254451-34e3-4bb7-a0eb-b06d1d31d472.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b0254451-34e3-4bb7-a0eb-b06d1d31d472.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru speaks about his new novel &quot;El Sueno del Celta&quot; or &quot;The Dream of the Celt&quot; in Madrid, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4a1876cd-fb09-4bcd-bcfd-ecfb9519a01e.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4a1876cd-fb09-4bcd-bcfd-ecfb9519a01e.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru speaks about his new novel &quot;El Sueno del Celta&quot; or &quot;The Dream of the Celt&quot; in Madrid, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa' Nobel moved Isabel Allende</title>
<description><![CDATA[Isabel Allende is "touched" by the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sigal Ratner-Arias]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Sigal Ratner-Arias]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/08/5258846-vargas-llosa-nobel-moved-isabel-allende</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/08/5258846-vargas-llosa-nobel-moved-isabel-allende</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>people</category><category>us</category><category>nobel-prize</category><category>allende</category><category>isabel-allende</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4bb59dc8-a361-472f-8978-e79e1450db1a.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4bb59dc8-a361-472f-8978-e79e1450db1a.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this May 3, 2010 photo, Chilean writer Isabel Allende is interviewed at the offices of The Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Excerpts from the Nobel literature prize citation</title>
<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from the Swedish Academy's citation awarding the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5248938-excerpts-from-the-nobel-literature-prize-citation</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5248938-excerpts-from-the-nobel-literature-prize-citation</guid><category>eu</category><category>nobel</category><category>literature</category><category>citation</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize</category><category>swedish-academy</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:41:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a man of letters who also braved the violence and political divisions of his homeland to run for president, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Ritter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Karl Ritter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/06/5243409-mario-vargas-llosa-wins-nobel-literature-prize</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/06/5243409-mario-vargas-llosa-wins-nobel-literature-prize</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>nobel</category><category>literature</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize</category><category>nobel-literature</category><category>swedish-academy</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>with-european</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/de7d666e-053c-464d-bd26-2d517fe20f81.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/de7d666e-053c-464d-bd26-2d517fe20f81.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, speaks to The Associated Press at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 1, 2010. Englund said the academy has chosen this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, and will announce it on Oct. 7 after a formal vote.(AP Photo/Scott Lakey)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a2703da4-d807-42cd-b0fc-bf8e6acafb54.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="355" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a2703da4-d807-42cd-b0fc-bf8e6acafb54.jpg" width="120" height="173" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;File - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks during a news conference at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, in this Dec. 4, 2009 file photo. Mario Vargas Llosa won 2010 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Oct. 7, 2010.  (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e5af0602-23b0-473a-b543-5ed68d124af3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="271" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e5af0602-23b0-473a-b543-5ed68d124af3.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks during a news conference at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, in this Dec. 4, 2009 file photo. Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/372976da-44a5-4bbc-92a9-237e1914a9f4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="496" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/372976da-44a5-4bbc-92a9-237e1914a9f4.jpg" width="120" height="149" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa attend the opening ceremony of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international forum in Caracas, in this May 28, 2009 file photo. Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/41380b37-b1d8-4ee1-8248-a2f1954bdcc7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/41380b37-b1d8-4ee1-8248-a2f1954bdcc7.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peter Englund, chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy presents the Nobel Literature laureate Thursday Oct. 7, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author &quot;for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.&quot;    (AP Photo/Scanpix/Anders Wiklund) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/466fa8b0-f8fc-4b02-ab90-d84d17b52b1f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/466fa8b0-f8fc-4b02-ab90-d84d17b52b1f.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This May 5, 2006 file photo shows Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa in Stockholm, Sweden. Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author &quot;for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.&quot; (AP Photo/Scanpix/Fredrik Persson, file) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1e9c658a-9d01-4576-8860-50b98208ace5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="332" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1e9c658a-9d01-4576-8860-50b98208ace5.jpg" width="120" height="185" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa  laughs after receiving a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa degree, from  the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo, about 50 miles west of San Juan, in this Nov. 17, 2006 file photo. Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday Oct. 7, 2010.  (AP Photo/Herminio Rodriguez, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title></title>
<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace warns of "surprisingly high" levels of arsenic and mercury in Hungarian sludge.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/01/5215193-</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/01/5215193-</guid><category>eu</category><category>apnewsalert</category><category>health</category><category>science</category><category>nobel-peace-prize</category><category>world-news</category><category>nobel-prize</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>liu-xiaobo</category><category>robert-edwards</category><category>russians-andre-geim</category><category>konstantin-novoselov</category><category>hungarian-science-academy</category><category>liu-xiabo</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:08:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair</title>
<description><![CDATA[Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/26/3428057-pamuk-fuentes-and-vargas-llosa-headline-book-fair</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/26/3428057-pamuk-fuentes-and-vargas-llosa-headline-book-fair</guid><category>business</category><category>mexico</category><category>fair</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>book-fair</category><category>carlos-fuentes</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:17:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chavez invites intellectual opponents to debate</title>
<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday backed away from a direct debate with prominent critics a day after he invited Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and other Latin American intellectuals to join him on live television this weekend.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabiola Sanchez]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Fabiola Sanchez]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/29/2878694-chavez-invites-intellectual-opponents-to-debate</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/29/2878694-chavez-invites-intellectual-opponents-to-debate</guid><category>venezuela</category><category>chavez</category><category>latin-american</category><category>hugo-chavez</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:41:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4a812b27-f05c-49f1-a63d-70032a3750bd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4a812b27-f05c-49f1-a63d-70032a3750bd.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Elsa Morales, 64,  watches a TV screen that shows Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during his program &quot;Hello President&quot; in Caracas, Friday, May 29, 2009. Chavez invited his prominent critics, including Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and other visiting Latin American intellectuals, to debate Saturday on live television at the presidential palace.  (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Vargas Llosa: Venezuela moving to Cuba-like regime</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa warned Thursday that Venezuela is headed toward a dictatorship under President Hugo Chavez, and the country may eventually resemble Cuba's communist-led autocracy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabiola Sanchez]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Fabiola Sanchez]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/25/2862558-vargas-llosa-venezuela-moving-to-cuba-like-regime</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/25/2862558-vargas-llosa-venezuela-moving-to-cuba-like-regime</guid><category>venezuela</category><category>hugo-chavez</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><category>alvaro-vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a49d0675-583f-4e92-803a-2f1226d1f666.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a49d0675-583f-4e92-803a-2f1226d1f666.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, center, surrounded by journalists, arrives to the Simon Bolivar, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/beb65422-e792-4496-899d-77ff10bae237.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/beb65422-e792-4496-899d-77ff10bae237.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, center, surrounded by fans, arrives to the Simon Bolivar, in Maiquetia,  Venezuela, Wednesday, May 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/09883e54-f62c-4f22-9b25-9444cdb69ab7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="351" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/09883e54-f62c-4f22-9b25-9444cdb69ab7.jpg" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks at a press conference after the opening ceremony of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international forum in Caracas, Thursday, May 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/23d396ca-6356-438a-91ec-2be4e73f154b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="242" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/23d396ca-6356-438a-91ec-2be4e73f154b.jpg" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, center, smiles as Rafael Alonzo of Venezuela's Freedom Center  Economic Studies, CEDICE, left, and, Emilio Grateron, Mayor of Caracas' Chacao neighborhood, applaud after Vargas Llosa delivered a speech at the opening of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international forum in Caracas, Thursday, May 28, 2009.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/454ed62b-3433-4cf4-88fb-acf05998428c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/454ed62b-3433-4cf4-88fb-acf05998428c.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, right, is greeted by Rafael Alonzo of Venezuela's Freedom Center  Economic Studies, CEDICE, after he delivered a speech at the opening of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international forum in Caracas, Thursday, May 28, 2009.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/965d2911-6205-4c5e-8e8d-347e50d51699.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/965d2911-6205-4c5e-8e8d-347e50d51699.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;From left to right, an unidentified translator, Wolfgang Gerhardt, of the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation, Alejandro Chafuen, of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Caracas' Mayor Antonio Ledezma, and Rafael Alonzo, of  Venezuela's Freedom Center Economic Studies, CEDICE , listen to Mario Vargas Llosa's speech at the opening of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international forum in Caracas, Thursday, May 28, 2009.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5331d000-7842-4e44-a3bb-221339548080.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5331d000-7842-4e44-a3bb-221339548080.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Alejandro Chafuen, of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, back right, shakes hands with Rafael Alonzo, of Venezuela's Freedom Center for  Economic Studies, CEDICE, left, as Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa applauds during the opening of the &quot;Freedom and Democracy&quot; international  forum in Caracas, Thursday, May 28, 2009.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Famous Peruvian writer applauds Obama's candidacy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa says Barack Obama would make a "magnificent" U.S. president.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/16/1755434-famous-peruvian-writer-applauds-obamas-candidacy</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/16/1755434-famous-peruvian-writer-applauds-obamas-candidacy</guid><category>venezuela</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>mario-vargas-llosa</category><category>vargas-llosa</category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:49:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/58944d56-8b72-4035-92d6-4808509d0bce.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="278" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/58944d56-8b72-4035-92d6-4808509d0bce.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., climbs stairs to board a plane in Chicago on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>