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Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. [5]
Jul 1, 2024 · 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 dictator Manuel Odría rose to power in 1948 and over the next eight years, while Vargas Llosa studied law and literature at the University of San Marcos, he imposed rigid controls on social life which stifled individuality, engendering scepticism, defeatism and frustration among Peruvians.
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 · In his superb novel “ The Feast of the Goat ” (2000), Vargas Llosa conjured the inner life of Rafael Trujillo, the psychopathic caudillo who terrorized the Dominican Republic for 30 years ...
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.
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.
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.
Oct 28, 2019 · Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner who is considered to be part of the "Latin American Boom" of the 1960s and 70s, a group of influential writers including Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.
