(16 Dec 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Various exteriors of House of Literature
2. Wide of audience applauding as the Peruvian 2010 Nobel literature winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, enters room
3. Mid of Vargas Llosa
4. Vargas Llosa receiving award
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Vargas Llosa, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2010:
"This prize is a reason for all Peruvians to feel awarded, to feel a recognition, the image of the country somehow gets associated to something more elevated than those type of things for which our country appears in the international media, not the catastrophes, not the violence, no, Peru is also the beautiful use of the words, the creation of artistic forms and literary characters."
6. Various of Vargas Llosa's books displayed at House of Literature
7. Various of Vargas Llosa entering Golden Room at presidential palace alongside Peruvian President Alan Garcia
8. Wide of Garcia and Vargas Llosa on stage
9. Vargas Llosa receiving award from Garcia
10. Various of Vargas Llosa and wife greeting guests
STORYLINE
The 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, was recognised in his homeland in Peru on Wednesday following the writer's return from Stockholm, where he received the award last Friday.
At a meeting with fans and journalists at the House of Literature in Lima, Vargas Llosa said that reading and literature are important factors for a strong democratic society.
Llosa said that a citizen who reads good literature is a citizen that thinks and demands changes.
He said that the "prize is a reason for all Peruvians to feel awarded, to feel a recognition."
Llosa said it was pleasing and refreshing to have Peru portrayed on the international stage in a positive light.
"The image of the country somehow gets associated to something more elevated than those type of things for which our country appears in the international media, not the catastrophes, not the violence, no, Peru is also the beautiful use of the words, the creation of artistic forms and literary characters," Vargas Llosa added.
His speech kicked off an international congress that will gather experts on Vargas Llosa's work at the House of Literature during the upcoming days.
Later on Wednesday, 74-years old Vargas Llosa was given a reception in his honour at the presidential palace where he received an award from President Alan Garcia.
Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the 1.5 (m) million US dollars Nobel Prize in literature since Colombia's Garcia Marquez in 1982, and the first Spanish-language writer to win since Mexico's Octavio Paz in 1990.
His best-known works include "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House."
Vargas Llosa's work covers personal and historical territory, especially political violence and oppression.
Like such recent Nobelists as Herta Mueller and Doris Lessing, Vargas Llosa is a dissenter from communism, a former party member who ran for president of Peru in 1990 as an advocate of privatisation and remains a critic of leftist leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
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