Peruvian Author Mario Vargas Llosa to Receive ‘Living Legend Award’

The Library of Congress announced Tuesday it will honor Peruvian novelist, essayist and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa with the “Living Legend Award.”

The ceremony is free and open to the public and will be held on April 11 at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

Vargas received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 for works including deeply political novels such as “The Feast of the Goat” and “The War of the End of the World.” A prolific novelist and essayist, he is considered an integral part of the “Latin American Boom” of the 1960s and 1970s which also include Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar, among others. NBC