The winner of this year’s prize is Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” He is published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Picador, which published his novel The Bad Girl in hardcover in 2006 and in paperback in 2008, and Harvard University Press, which released the essay collection Wellsprings in 2008. Picador Publisher Frances Coady said in a statement that as of this morning, all 10 of the author’s books they publish are being reprinted: “we already have in place major bookseller […]
