Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (March 28, 1936 – April 13, 2025), was a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist. Winner of the Nobel prize for literature, he was one of the most renown writers of modern times. He has written many books, plays and essays. A few famous books are listed below:
- The City and the Dogs (1965)
- The Green House (1965)
- Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)
- The War of the End of the World (1981)
- The Feast of the Goat (2000)
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| Marquess of Vargas Llosa | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa March 28, 1936 Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru |
| Died | April 13, 2025 (aged 89) Lima, Peru |
| Citizenship | Peru, Spain[1] |
| Political party | Movimiento Libertad (1990–1993) |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Domestic partner | Isabel Preysler (2015–25) |
| Children | 3, including Álvaro Vargas Llosa |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Miguel de Cervantes Prize 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 |
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| Website | www |
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 2010. His book The Dream of the Celt is about the life of Irishman Roger Casement. Though it was published in Spanish 2010, the translation into English is still incomplete.
Vargas Llosa died on April 13, 2025 in Lima, Peru at the age of 89.[2]
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Vargas Llosa's thesis Foundations for an Interpretation of Rubén Darío, presented to his alma mater, the National University of San Marcos, in 1958
Mario Vargas Llosa, 1982
Mario Vargas Llosa with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto in 2014
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato (left) with Mario Vargas Llosa (right) in 1981
Vargas Llosa at the founding act of the Spanish political party UPyD in September 2007
Vargas Llosa (fifth from the left), accompanied by several Peruvian intellectuals and members of the Peruvian Academy of Language, during his visit to the Raúl Porras Barrenechea Institute of the National University of San Marcos in 2011
Vargas Llosa acting in his play Los cuentos de la peste in Teatro Español, 2015
Mario Vargas Llosa at the 2012 National Book Festival
Vargas Llosa wearing a cap from Club Universitario de Deportes, the Peruvian soccer team he supported as a youth
Vargas Llosa receiving the Gabriela Mistral Order of Educational and Cultural Merit from President Sebastián Piñera in 2010
References
- ↑ "Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 2014-03-02.
In 1990, he ran for the presidency in Peru but lost to Alberto Fujimori. Disheartened by the broad public approval for Fujimori's harsh rule in Peru, Vargas Llosa took the Spanish citizenship, living in Madrid and London.
- ↑ "Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa died". Reuters. 13 April 2025.