2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes To ‘Exactly the Kind of Writer it Ought To’ (New Yorker)

October 24, 2010 by Matt O'Donnell

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded last week to Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik discusses the prize, and prize culture among writers, and contends that this year’s award goes to “exactly the kind of writer the prize ought to go to.”