Mario Vargas Llosa

The Nobel Prize In Literature 2010 was awarded to the Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa. For years Mario Vargas Llosa had been a writer-in-waiting for the prize. If another year had gone by without the long awaited announcement, all of South America would had been transported to Stockholm, Sweden, and all the old aunties and grandmothers would had stood outside the Swedish Academy's gate.

Journalists are writing that Mario Vargas Llosa wasn't on the lists of favorites. The names mentioned were Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. So it were the prayers of the old aunties and grandmothers, and the tears of the guild of master printers of all those unopened past books selected for the prize, and probably the spirit of perpetual doubt that caused those Scandinavians to choose Mario Vargas Llosa as a safe pick.

The consensus choice? A poll of all the poets who have gone to Heaven is that Mario Vargas Llosa is gifted and the gifted are too often underrepresented. Who knows for sure how the Swedish academy chose Mario Vargas Llosa. Its members keep its methods wrapped in secrets and mystery, which Heaven tells us will melt away slower than snow does on ice. It is the opinion of book lovers, who still pray to Heaven, that Mario Vargas Llosa has enjoyed the Muse favor for a long time, and for that academy to overlook brilliance for another year would have been cause for speculation as to whether every one in Sweden is blind.