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Mario Vargas Llosa
Writing

Mario Vargas Llosa
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1936-03-28,Arequipa, Peru
Gender
Male
Biography
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. 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. 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." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral, 1969/1975). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films. Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian. Increasingly, he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world. Another change over the course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism, to a sometimes playful postmodernism. Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa has been politically active throughout his career. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with its policies, particularly after the imprisonment of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, and now identifies as a liberal. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating classical liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori. He is the person who, in 1990, "coined the phrase that circled the globe," declaring on Mexican television, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship", a statement which became an adage during the following decade. Vargas Llosa is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.

Filmography

The Emma Bovary Trial

6.8

The Emma Bovary Trial
2021-09-15

La última lidia

2

La última lidia
2023-05-12

The Padilla Affair

7

The Padilla Affair
2023-06-02

A Philosopher in the Arena

2

A Philosopher in the Arena
2019-02-01

El Quijote desde la platea

4.5

El Quijote desde la platea
2019-04-22

Mario y los perros

7

Mario y los perros
2019-06-27

Letters to Eloisa

0

Letters to Eloisa
2020-03-08

El corazón del Teatro Real

8

El corazón del Teatro Real
2018-09-23

Las alturas de Macchu Picchu

8

Las alturas de Macchu Picchu
1981-10-08

Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles

6

Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
1986-10-01

Che: muerte de la utopia?

7

Che: muerte de la utopia?
1999-06-12

Mario Vargas Llosa: la vida está hecha para traicionarse

0

Mario Vargas Llosa: la vida está hecha para traicionarse
2025-04-14

Detrás de las Cámaras - Los Jaivas: Alturas de Macchu Picchu

0

Detrás de las Cámaras - Los Jaivas: Alturas de Macchu Picchu
1999-01-01

7.5

Hemingway
2021-04-05

5

Skavlan
2009-01-16

7

De pé a pá
1996-01-07

7.3

Milá Vs Milá
2021-10-13

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

0

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
2017-02-27

0

Lo + plus
1995-04-04