Word: llosa
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...University Marshal introduced the recipients--Arrow, Harvard Professor Bernard Bailyn, Block, Professor Andrew F. Brimmer, statistician David R. Cox, Greenspan, Literary Theorist Julia Kristeva, and Author Mario Vargas Llosa. Rudenstine bestowed a witty epithet on each recipient--describing Greenspan as the man who "keeps America green"--before conferring the degrees...
...Llosa, a native of Peru, is a recipient of theNational Book Critics Circle Award and theCervantes prize for literature, among othershonors. He has written over 12 novels, includingThe War of the End of the World...
...writer made a bid for the Peruvianpresidency, but won only one-third of the vote.The election culminated in a dictatorship in Peruand forced Llosa to live a life of exile...
...Llosa received his B.A. at the UniversidadNacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and hisdoctorate at Universidad Complutense in Madrid...
...Llosa came to Harvard in 1992 as the Robert F.Kennedy visiting professor. He will be receiving aDoctorate of Letters