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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 28 de marzo de 1936), conocido como Mario Vargas Llosa, es un escritor peruano que cuenta también con la nacionalidad española desde 1993. Considerado uno de los más importantes novelistas y ensayistas contemporáneos, sus obras han cosechado numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Nobel de Literatura 2010, el Cervantes 1994 —considerado como el más importante en lengua española—, el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 1986, el Biblioteca Breve 1962, el Rómulo Gallegos 1967 y el Planeta 1993, entre otros.

Como escritor, alcanzó la fama en la década de 1960 con novelas como La ciudad y los perros (1963), La casa verde (1966) y Conversación en La Catedral (1969). Continuó escribiendo prolíficamente en varios géneros literarios, como el ensayo, el artículo y el teatro. Entre sus novelas destacan asimismo La guerra del fin del mundo (1981), o La fiesta del Chivo (2000).


Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger 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."

Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist.

Born 28 March 1936

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October 12, 2022 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
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