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Fourth edition of Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial sees language, freedom as main themes

Guadalajara, Sep 23 (EFE).- The IV Biennial of Novel Mario Vargas Llosa kicked off Thursday in the Mexican city of Guadalajara with focuses on language and freedom.During the opening ceremony, the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa highlighted that the Chair that bears his name and that organizes the biennial seeks to promote the books written in Spanish that have quality and that contribute to the intellectual training of readers. The event is scheduled to run until Sep. 26. (Camera: JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ).SHOT LIST: THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE IV BIENNIAL OF NOVEL MARIO VARGAS LLOSA IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO.SOUND BITES: PERUVIAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: There shall never be a country where freedoms are limited, where rooms to criticize the governments or the different institutions are cut down. That way literature can be loaded with a certain critical vivacity and people can begin to read books in a different way.