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Mario Vargas Llosa

Biography

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded 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 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include THE FEAST OF THE GOAT, IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER and AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER. He died in Lima at the age of 89 in 2025.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Books by Mario Vargas Llosa