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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 ...
Apr 12, 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.
Biographical. English. Spanish. Mario 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.
Oct 8, 2010 · Oct. 7, 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...
Mario Vargas Llosa. Facts. © The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan. 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. Life.
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...
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.
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