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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"
Jul 19, 2023 · The great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is best known in the United States for his novels, his crucial contribution to the Latin American Boom beginning in the nineteen-sixties, and his...
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.
Nov 23, 2021 · Like many Latin American intellectuals, Vargas Llosa began his career sympathetic to the aims and ideals of the revolutionary left, but by the 1980s he had become a champion of free markets and...
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 ...
Mario Vargas Llosa delivered his Nobel Lecture, 7 December 2010, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. He was introduced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. The lecture was delivered in Spanish.
The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment. Mario Vargas Llosa isn’t a household name among American readers. But at 81, he remains a literary and political ...
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.
