Mario Vargas Llosa
28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025
Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist associated with the Latin American Boom, author of The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat. He stood unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency in 1990, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 and was elected to the Académie française in 2021.
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Life events
Born in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried at the age of 19; the marriage lasted until 1964 and later inspired the novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft Peru for Europe and settled in Paris, where he worked as a teacher and journalist.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis first novel, set in a Lima military academy, brought him international recognition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried his cousin Patricia Llosa, with whom he had three children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA novel examining Peruvian society under the dictatorship of Manuel Odría.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRan as the candidate of the Frente Democrático and lost the run-off to Alberto Fujimori.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA novel about the Dominican dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and its aftermath.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAwarded the prize for his cartography of structures of power and his depiction of individual resistance and defeat.
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