Upon receiving the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Green House, Vargas Llosa proclaimed:
Literature may die, but it will never be conformist. ... The reality of [Latin] America offers the writer a whole panoply of reasons to be a dissident, to live as a malcontent. [. . .] Societies where injustice is law ... our turbulent lands provide us bountiful, exemplary materials to show in fiction, directly or indirectly, through facts, dreams, testimony, allegory, nightmares or visions that there is something wrong with reality, that life must change. Adolfo Prieto, ‘Conflicts de generaciones’ in America Latina en su Literatura, ed. Cesar Fernandez Moreno (Mexico City, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1972 ) , 414 .
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