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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (/ ˌ v ɑːr ɡ ə s ˈ j oʊ s ə /, Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβaɾɣas ˈʎosa]), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his plays, novels, and essays. In 1990 he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of Peru. Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. Learn more about his life and work.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
Mar 28, 2012 · Mario Vargas Llosa. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010. Born: 28 March 1936, Arequipa, Peru. Prize motivation: “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat”. Prize share: 1/1.
Feb 20, 2018 · Mario Vargas Llosa isn’t a household name among American readers. But at 81, he remains a literary and political colossus across the Spanish-speaking world, and his novels have never felt more ...
Oct 8, 2010 · The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years.
