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Peruvian-born novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, 74, (pictured) said he was astonished and delighted to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
"For years I haven't thought about the Nobel prize at all. They didn't mention me in recent years so I didn't expect it. It's been a surprise, very nice, but a surprise. At first I thought it was a joke," he said.
He has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays and is South America's first laureate since Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez won in 1982.
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