Mario Vargas Llosa

The Most Illustrious

The Marquess of Vargas Llosa

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	Mario Vargas Llosa in Madrid, 2012
Marquess of Vargas Llosa
Personal details
Born	Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa; March 28, 1936 (age 88); Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
Citizenship	Peru, Spain
Political party	Movimiento Libertad (1990–1993)
Spouse(s)	Julia Urquidi; (m. 1955; div. 1964); Patricia Llosa; (m. 1965; sep. 2015);
Domestic partner	Isabel Preysler; (2015–present)
Children	3, including Álvaro Vargas Llosa
Alma mater	National University of San Marcos; Complutense University of Madrid;
Awards	Miguel de Cervantes Prize ; 1994 ; Nobel Prize in Literature ; 2010 ;
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Website	www.mvargasllosa.com

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936), is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist. Winner of the Nobel prize for literature, he is one of the most renown writers of modern times. He has written many books, plays and essays and still writes. 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)

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.

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Mario Vargas Llosa's thesis «Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío», presented to his alma mater, the National University of San Marcos (Peru), in 1958.
Mario Vargas Llosa, 1982
Mario Vargas Llosa with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto (2016).
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato (left) with Mario Vargas Llosa (right) in 1981
Vargas Llosa at the founding act of the Spanish political party UPyD, September 2007
Mario Vargas Llosa, actor in his play Los cuentos de la peste, with Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Teatro Español, Madrid (2015).
Mario Vargas Llosa (2012).
Vargas Llosa wearing a cap from Universitario de Deportes, the peruvian soccer team he has been a fan since his youth.
Mario Vargas Llosa receiving the Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral of Chile (2010).
Decoration of Honour for Science and the Arts

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.

[1] "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.

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