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  2. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa ( / ˌvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə /, [4] 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 ...

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  3. Apr 12, 2024 · Mario Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru) is a Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays. In 1990, he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of Peru. Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his ...

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  4. M ario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city. During his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura, a city in the north of Peru, he believed that his father had died. However, this was a lie told by his mother to conceal their tortuous separation. The truth emerged when, in 1946, his father appeared ...

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    Mario Vargas Llosa was born to Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, in southern Peru. His father abandoned the family immediately and, due to the social prejudice his mother faced as a result, her parents moved the whole family to Cochabamba, Bolivia. Dora had come from a family of elite intellectuals and art...

    After graduating from university in 1958, Vargas Llosa obtained a scholarship to pursue graduate work in Spain at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He planned to begin writing about his time at Leoncio Prado. When his scholarship ended in 1960, he and his wife Julia Urquidi (whom he had married in 1955) moved to France. There, Vargas Llosa met...

    Vargas Llosa began to develop a leftist political ideology during the Odría dictatorship. He was part of a Communist cell at the National University of San Marcos and began to read Marx. Vargas Llosa was initially supportive of Latin American socialism, specifically the Cuban Revolution, and he even traveled to the island to cover the Cuban Missile...

    During the 1980s, Vargas Llosa continued to publish even as he was becoming move involved in politics, including a historical novel, "The War of the End of the World" (1981). After losing the presidential election in 1990, Vargas Llosa left Peru and settled in Spain, becoming a political columnist for the newspaper "El País." Many of these columns ...

    Iber, Patrick. "Metamorphosis: The Political Education of Mario Vargas Llosa." The Nation, 15 April 2019. https://www.thenation.com/article/mario-vargas-llosa-sabres-and-utopias-book-review/, acces...
    Jaggi, Maya. "Fiction and Hyper-Reality." The Guardian, 15 March 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/16/fiction.books, accessed 1 October 2019.
    Williams, Raymond L. Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life of Writing. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 2014.
    "Mario Vargas Llosa." NobelPrize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/vargas_llosa/biographical/, accessed 30 September 2019.
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  6. Mar 28, 2012 · Vargas Llosa developed an interest in poetry at an early age, which was a source of worry for his father, who enrolled him in a military academy. Nevertheless, he followed his literary instincts and became a writer. Vargas Llosa was also politically active and ran as a candidate in the Peruvian presidential election of 1990.

  7. Feb 20, 2018 · Yet Vargas Llosa is the more daring, more democratic writer. While García Márquez cozied up to Fidel Castro and refined a distinctive style, Vargas Llosa reinvented his over and over again while ...

  8. Nov 23, 2021 · Vargas Llosa’s route through this tangle of conspiracy is nonlinear. We see the events — whose outcome is a matter of historical record — from various angles, first in a rather telegraphic ...

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