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Mario Vargas Llosa
AuthorBooks · Second hand1936-2025
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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About Mario Vargas Llosa
Birth
1936
Death
2025
First book
1959
Years writing
66
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Born in Arequipa in 1936, Mario Vargas Llosa is a fundamental figure in contemporary literature.
His masterpiece The Time of the Hero catapulted him to international fame during the 1960s.
Throughout his life, the author held Peruvian, Spanish, and Dominican citizenship.
His prolific career spans over 350 works, including novels, essays, plays, and screenplays.
He was awarded the most prestigious prizes, notably the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 and the Cervantes Prize in 1994.
