The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 7, 2010 Peruvian Novelist Llosa Wins Nobel Prize in Literature ------------------------------------------------------ Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. Llosa is one of Latin America’s leading novelists and essayists. He rose to prominence in the 1960s. Some of his best known novels include "The Green House" and "The War of the End of the World." .