mario vargas llosa

Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa is part of the generation of Latin American writers known as “El Boom” that achieved international attention in the sixties. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His novels, translated into numerous languages and adapted into film, TV, theater, and radio, include The Time of the Hero, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Bad Girl. He writes a regular column in Spain’s El País and lives in London.

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