Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Dream of the Celt (Spanish: El sueño del celta) is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate in literature. It portrays the life of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916), an Anglo-Irish man who became a British diplomat, known for investigating human rights abuses of indigenous peoples in the Congo and the Putumayo District of Peru. He came to support the nationalist cause for Irish independence, soliciting German armed aid against Britain during World War I. The title of the novel is from one of Casement's poems.The novel was presented on November 3, 2010 in a special ceremony held in the Casa de América museum and cultural center in Madrid, the same day as it appeared in bookstores. It was a bestseller in Spain and the most popular title at the XXIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. When the book was first published in Spanish, it was announced that the novel would appear in English in 2012; it was translated by Edith Grossman, who has won major awards for her work.In 2010, the Nobel Prize committee announced Vargas Llosa's selection in the following fashion: \"[it is] for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.\" This seemed to simultaneously anticipate and chart the author's course in his latest novel, while referring to some of his most acclaimed earlier novels."@en }
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- The_Dream_of_the_Celt abstract "The Dream of the Celt (Spanish: El sueño del celta) is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate in literature. It portrays the life of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916), an Anglo-Irish man who became a British diplomat, known for investigating human rights abuses of indigenous peoples in the Congo and the Putumayo District of Peru. He came to support the nationalist cause for Irish independence, soliciting German armed aid against Britain during World War I. The title of the novel is from one of Casement's poems.The novel was presented on November 3, 2010 in a special ceremony held in the Casa de América museum and cultural center in Madrid, the same day as it appeared in bookstores. It was a bestseller in Spain and the most popular title at the XXIV Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. When the book was first published in Spanish, it was announced that the novel would appear in English in 2012; it was translated by Edith Grossman, who has won major awards for her work.In 2010, the Nobel Prize committee announced Vargas Llosa's selection in the following fashion: \"[it is] for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.\" This seemed to simultaneously anticipate and chart the author's course in his latest novel, while referring to some of his most acclaimed earlier novels.".