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China, despite its economic success, "is still a dictatorship, a totalitarian regime which fiercely reprimands any kind of critique," said the former leftist, a tireless opponent of dictatorships around the world.
Vargas Llosa, 74, will receive the Nobel Literature Prize in Stockholm on Friday.
The Nobel Peace Prize will also be handed out on Friday but at a separate ceremony in Oslo. It is set to take place without Liu, who remains in prison in China.
When Vargas Llosa was awarded the prestigious prize in October, the Swedish Academy praised "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
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Vargas Llosa, 74, will receive the Nobel Literature Prize in Stockholm on Friday.
The Nobel Peace Prize will also be handed out on Friday but at a separate ceremony in Oslo. It is set to take place without Liu, who remains in prison in China.
When Vargas Llosa was awarded the prestigious prize in October, the Swedish Academy praised "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
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