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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.
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Learn about the life and works of the Peruvian writer who won the Nobel Prize for his novels that reflect his political and social views. Discover his childhood, his travels, his marriages, his activism and his literary style.
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. Life. Mario Vargas Llosa was born into a middle-class family in Arequipa, Peru.
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- Travesuras de la niña mala.
- The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)
- La ciudad y los perros.
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane (Translator)
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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.
