Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
latin america
nobel prize
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".Wikipedia →
Works
La ciudad y los perros
The Time of the Hero
Spanish · 1963Novel
Lituma en los Andes
Death in the Andes
Spanish · 1993Novel
1 translation
Cartas a un joven novelista
Letters to a Young Novelist
Spanish · 1997Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
1 translation
La Fiesta del Chivo
The Feast of the Goat
Spanish · 2000Novel
1 translation
El paraíso en la otra esquina
The Way to Paradise
Spanish · 2003Novel
1 translation
Travesuras de la niña mala
The Bad Girl
Spanish · 2006Novel
1 translation
El sueño del celta
The Dream of the Celt
Spanish · 2010Novel
1 translation
El héroe discreto
The Discreet Hero
Spanish · 2013Novel
1 translation