Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is known only as Mario Vargas Llosa. He was born in Arequipa, Perú, in 1936. He is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most important novelists and essayists and he is one of the leading authors of his generation too. Critics considered him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom.

The Latin American Boom was born with him and he has helped  to define and identify a new generation of writers. 

His narrative is characterized by the importance of technical experimentation, so he is valued by  teachers as a novel composer.

Thoughout his career he has received a lot of awards and honours, such as the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 and the two top awards in the field of Hispanic literature: Romulo Gallegos Award (for his novel Green house, in 1967) and the Cervantes Award in 1994. 

He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.

His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels and political thrillers.

Vargas Llosa is a fan of Gustave Flaubert and of his novel Madame Bovary. Vargas has written about him and his book The Perpetual Orgy.

He is the president of International  PEN, the worldwide organization of writers. On 22nd November 1976 he sent a letter to the Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. In it he claimed that the government forces and armed commandos in civilian clothes had persecuted intellectuals, abducted them from their homes and then they were murdered, tortured or disappeared without any news of their whereabouts. He also said that a lot of writers, artists and journalists moved of his coutry because they received death threats.

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