Mario Vargas Llosa Articles

  Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, 74, not American Cormac McCarthy or Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o or the Swede Tomas Tranströmer as some had predicted, will be handed the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature next December. As per the Swedish-based Academy, Vargas Llosa was awarded "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Among the [...]

Shot a mere month after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Bahman Ghobadi's Iraqi war drama Turtles Can Fly (photo) won the Golden Shell at the 2004 San Sebastián Film Festival. According to Reuters, Peruvian author and chairman of the jury Mario Vargas Llosa stated that although the decision was not unanimous, Turtles Can Fly had "moved us all, not only because of the terrible [...]

Will Ferrell, Radha Mitchell in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda This year, the San Sebastián Film Festival will present a retrospective dedicated to Woody Allen, whose Melinda and Melinda, featuring Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell, will have its world premiere on opening night. Hollywood actors Jeff Bridges and Annette Bening, for their part, will be honored with Lifetime Achievement awards. The festival, which takes place [...]