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Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Also known as: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa

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In full:: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa

Born:: March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru (age 88)

Awards And Honors:: Nobel Prize (2010); Cervantes Prize (1994)

Notable Works:: “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”; “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service”; “Conversation in the Cathedral”; “The Green House”; “The Time of the Hero”; “The War of the End of the World”

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Mario Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru) Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays. In 1990 he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of Peru. Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Vargas Llosa received his early education in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where his grandfather was the Peruvian consul. He attended a series of schools in Peru before entering a military school, Leoncio Prado, in Lima in 1950; he ...(100 of 908 words)

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