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Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight".
Lee Brackstone spoke to The Bookseller after the Peruvian writer, politician and journalist was awarded the accolade.
The Nobel foundation awarded the prize to Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Brackstone said: "I can't say that it's unexpected. I think everyone who has been associated with Mario over the past few decades has suspected that this might come one day and we've hoped every year that this might be the case.
"Faber has over a dozen of his books in print. He's a writer whose books access and represent a universal perspective and he is a writer as comfortable writing historical narrative as he is erotic fiction.
"He is a writer of enormous range, passion and insight."
A former president of PEN, Llosa was also a candidate in the 1990 Presidential elections.
The Faber author is known for titles including The War at the End of the World and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. Faber also published his recent novel The Bad Girl and his latest paperback The Feast of the Goat.
Brackstone has been Llosa's editor for the last five years but said: "[Former Faber editor in chief] Robert McCrum brought him to Faber and it's part of the continuing legacy of Robert's genius of acquiring at Faber.
"I am just his custodian and present-day evangelist."