China calls dissident Nobel prize an "obscenity"

BEIJING: China condemned as obscene the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed dissident on Friday, saying that it went against the aims of the award and would harm the country’s relations with Norway.

Pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for decades of non violent struggle for human rights, an award that Beijing had anticipated and bitterly criticised.

“The awarding of the peace prize by the committee to this person completely contradicts its aims and is an obscenity against the peace prize,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement on the ministry’s websit.

“Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to jail because he violated Chinese law,” Ma said. “His actions are diametrically opposed to the aims of the Nobel prize.

“Nobel’s behest was that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to somebody who promoted peace

Peru’s Vargas Llosa wins Nobel for literature

STOCKHOLM: Peruvian-born writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, who has chronicled struggles for power, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said on Thursday.

The committee said in a statement Vargas Llosa received the award “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”.

Vargas Llosa, who made his international breakthrough with the novel “The Time of the Hero” in 1966, is the first Latin American winner for literature since Octavio Paz won in 1990.

His works build on his experiences of life in Peru in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Vargos Llosa ran for president of Peru in 1990 but lost to Alberto Fujimori, who ultimately had to flee the country and was subsequently convicted of various crimes.

“He is an outstanding author, and

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