Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel
Vargas Llosa:
Why him? Why now?
He thought it was a prank
Vargas Llosa, the story teller
An unclassifiable writer
Vargas Llosa speaks
A master of humility & humanity
Why Vargas Llosa
punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His controversies
should not detract from the work
Waiting for luggage with Vargas Llosa
Excerpts from 9
of Vargas Llosa’s books
Readers respond
to Vargas Llosa’s Nobel
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
