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  1. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films. Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian.

  2. Apr 12, 2024 · Vargas Llosa’s first novel, La ciudad y los perros (1963; “The City and the Dogs,” filmed in Spanish, 1985; Eng. trans. The Time of the Hero ), was widely acclaimed. Translated into more than a dozen languages, this novel, set in the Leoncio Prado, describes adolescents striving for survival in a hostile and violent environment .

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  3. Feb 20, 2018 · This week Vargas Llosa has three books coming out — English translations of a novel (“The Neighborhood”) and of a collection of political essays (“Sabers and Utopias”), as well as a new volume in...

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  4. Mario Vargas Llosa: Left-Wing Perspective (03:40) In Paris, the young Llosa finds time to write, and meets many writers from Latin America. He writes from a left-wing perspective and is an active defender of the Cuban revolution.

  5. Jaguar (1986 film) Tune in Tomorrow. Categories: Cinema of Peru. Films based on works by Spanish writers. Mario Vargas Llosa.

  6. The Way to Paradise (Spanish: El paraíso en la otra esquina) is a novel published by Mario Vargas Llosa in 2003. The novel is a historical double biography of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, one of the founders of feminism.

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  8. How important are your origins in your writing? Mario Vargas Llosa: I was born in Peru, but I spend my first ten years, not in Peru but in Bolivia. Then when we returned to Peru, I lived in Piura, in Lima and then I have lived in Spain, in France, in England in the Unites States and I’ve been moving all the way.

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