Nobel Prize is recognition of Spanish language: Vargas Llosa
by Kiran Pahwa on Fri, 10/08/2010.



New York, Oct 8 - Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa said the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him Thursday represented a world recognition of the Spanish language.

Vargas Llosa said hours after the Swedish Academy for Nobel prizes announced him this year's winner that it came as a "total surprise" because he thought he was out of the running in the past two decades.