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We honor Mario Vargas Llosa -- world-renowned author, novelist, critic, essayist and thinker -- for his distinguished contribution to journalism. As a relentless print and broadcast reporter, careful crafter of words, and chronicler of human achievement and folly, Peruvian-born Vargas Llosa has spent a lifetime defending democratic values and promoting inter-American understanding.
As he travels the world, from the Middle East to Central America, Canada in the north to Patagonia in Argentina's southern reaches, Vargas Llosa enlightens, enriches and promotes dialogue. Although not everyone agrees with him, most would recognize his fundamental role in generating debate about what the Americas can and should become.
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Mario Vargas Llosa, independent journalist and author
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A journalist since his days at the university in Lima, Vargas Llosa now uses his biweekly, syndicated column, Piedra de Toque (Touchstone), to reach readers throughout Latin America, Europe and Japan. Both the public and working journalists read Vargas Llosa's column, whose topics range from Chavez's policies in Venezuela, to the murder of a Guatemalan bishop by a right-wing death squad, to a series of articles on daily life in Iraq during the summer of 2003. Vargas Llosa has also written about the practice and nature of journalism in the Americas in his piece titled Contra la Amnesia.
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