The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". I haven't … more
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." Graphene is a cool two-dimensional … more
Mario Vargas Llosa is the 2010 winner of the Nobel Literature Prize. Vargas Llosa is from Peru and is the first South American winner of the prestigious 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) Nobel Prize in … more
Herta Muller is a Romanian-born German writer, known for her extremely controversial writings that criticise the Romanian Communist-era and its oppressive dictatorship. Since her books were all originally … more