Curiosidades

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1984

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1994.

Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Became a member of the Académie française on 8 February 2023.

Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.

He wrote prolifically across various literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism.

Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in The Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969/1975).

He ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating for liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori in a landslide.

He won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize and the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award.

Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom.

Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation.

Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa was politically active. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with its policies, particularly after the imprisonment of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, and later identified as a liberal and held anti-left-wing ideas.

At the age of 16, before his graduation, Vargas Llosa began working as a journalist for local newspapers.

When Vargas Llosa was fourteen, his father sent him to the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima.