Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist and writer (born 1936)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is  Vargas and the second or maternal family name is  Llosa.

The Most Excellent

The Marquess of Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa in 2016

Born|

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa

(1936-03-28) 28 March 1936 (age 87)

Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Citizenship|

* Peru (1936–present)[1]
* Spain (1993–present)[2][3]
* Dominican Republic (2023–present)[2]

Alma mater|

* National University of San Marcos
* Complutense University of Madrid

Title| Marqués
Political party| People's Liberty (2023–present)
Other political
affiliations| Liberty Movement (1987–1993)
Democratic Front (1988–1990)
Spouses|

* Julia Urquidi

(m. 1955; div. 1964)​

* Patricia Llosa

(m. 1965; sep. 2015)​

Children| 3, including Álvaro Vargas Llosa
Awards| Miguel de Cervantes Prize
1994
Nobel Prize in Literature
2010

Seat L of the Real Academia Española

Incumbent

Assumed office
15 January 1996[a]
Preceded by| Juan Rof Carballo [es]

Seat 18 of the Académie française

Incumbent

Assumed office
9 February 2023[b]
Preceded by| Michel Serres

Website| www.mvargasllosa.com
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (/ˌvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə/,[4] Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβaɾɣas ˈʎosa]), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician. 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.[5] 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."[6] He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.[7]

Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966),[8] The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral, 1969/1975). He writes, prolifically, across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films.

Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian. Increasingly, he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world.[9] Another change, over the course of his career, has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism to a sometimes playful postmodernism.

Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa has been politically active throughout his career. 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 now, he identifies as a liberal and holds anti-left wing ideas. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating for neoliberal reforms but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori. Since his exit from directly participating in politics in Peru, Vargas Llosa has advocated right-wing activists and candidates internationally.

Vargas Llosa is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.[10]

## Early life and family[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa's thesis «Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío», presented to his alma mater, the National University of San Marcos (Peru), in 1958.

Mario Vargas Llosa was born to a middle-class family[11] on 28 March 1936, in the southern Peruvian provincial city of Arequipa.[12] He was the only child of Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta (the former a radio operator in an aviation company, the latter the daughter of an old criollo family), who separated a few months before his birth.[12] Shortly after Mario's birth, his father revealed that he was having an affair with a German woman. Consequently, Mario has two younger half-brothers: Enrique and Ernesto Vargas.[13]

Vargas Llosa lived with his maternal family in Arequipa until a year after his parents divorced, when his maternal grandfather was named honorary consul for Peru in Bolivia.[12] With his mother and her family, Vargas Llosa then moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he spent the early years of his childhood.[12] His maternal family, the Llosas, were sustained by his grandfather, who managed a cotton farm.[14] As a child, Vargas Llosa was led to believe that his father had died—his mother and her family did not want to explain that his parents had separated.[15] During the government of Peruvian President José Bustamante y Rivero, Vargas Llosa's maternal grandfather obtained a diplomatic post in the northern Peruvian coastal city of Piura and the entire family returned to Peru.[15] While in Piura, Vargas Llosa attended elementary school at the religious academy Colegio Salesiano.[16] In 1946, at the age of ten, he moved to Lima and met his father for the first time.[16] His parents re-established their relationship and lived in Magdalena del Mar, a middle-class Lima suburb, during his teenage years.[17] While in Lima, he studied at the Colegio La Salle, a Christian middle school, from 1947 to 1949.[18]

When Vargas Llosa was fourteen, his father sent him to the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima.[19] At the age of 16, before his graduation, Vargas Llosa began working as an amateur journalist for local newspapers.[20] He withdrew from the military academy and finished his studies in Piura, where he worked for the local newspaper, La Industria, and witnessed the theatrical performance of his first dramatic work, La huida del Inca.[21]

In 1953, during the government of Manuel A. Odría, Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, to study law and literature.[22] While at the university, he was a member of a communist group, embracing the ideology due to corruption and inequality in Latin America.[23] He married Julia Urquidi, his maternal uncle's sister-in-law, in 1955 at the age of 19; she was 10 years older.[20] Vargas Llosa began his literary career in earnest, in 1957, with the publication of his first short stories, "The Leaders" ("Los jefes") and "The Grandfather" ("El abuelo"), while working for two Peruvian newspapers.[24] Upon his graduation from the National University of San Marcos in 1958, he received a scholarship to study at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain.[25]

In 1960, after his scholarship in Madrid had expired, Vargas Llosa moved to France, under the impression that he would receive a scholarship to study there. However, upon arriving in Paris, he learned that his scholarship request was denied.[26] Despite Mario and Julia's unexpected financial status, the couple decided to remain in Paris, where he began to write prolifically, even as a ghostwriter.[26][27] Their marriage lasted only a few more years, ending in divorce in 1964.[28] A year later, Vargas Llosa married his first cousin, Patricia Llosa,[23][28] with whom he had three children: Álvaro Vargas Llosa (born 1966), a writer and editor; Gonzalo (born 1967), an international civil servant; and Morgana (born 1974), a photographer.

## Writing career[edit]

### Beginning and first major works[edit]

Vargas Llosa's first novel, The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros), was published in 1963. The book is set among a community of cadets in a Lima military school, and the plot is based on the author's own experiences at Lima's Leoncio Prado Military Academy.[29] This early piece gained wide public attention and immediate success.[30] Its vitality and adept use of sophisticated literary techniques immediately impressed critics,[31] and it won the Premio de la Crítica Española award.[30] Nevertheless, its sharp criticism of the Peruvian military establishment led to controversy in Peru. Several Peruvian generals attacked the novel, claiming that it was the work of a "degenerate mind" and stating that Vargas Llosa was "paid by Ecuador" to undermine the prestige of the Peruvian Army.[30]

In 1965, Vargas Llosa published his second novel, The Green House (La casa verde), about a brothel called "The Green House" and how its quasi-mythical presence affects the lives of the characters. The main plot follows Bonifacia, a girl who is about to receive the vows of the church and her transformation into la Selvatica, the best-known prostitute of "The Green House.” The novel was immediately acclaimed, confirming Vargas Llosa as an important voice of Latin American narrative.[32] The Green House won the first edition of the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize in 1967, contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and by Gabriel García Márquez.[33] This novel, alone, accumulated enough awards to place the author among the leading figures of the Latin American Boom.[34] Some critics still consider The Green House to be Vargas Llosa's finest and most important achievement.[34] Indeed, Latin American literary critic Gerald Martin suggests that The Green House is "one of the greatest novels to have emerged from Latin America".[34]

Vargas Llosa's third novel, Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral), was published in 1969, when he was 33. This ambitious narrative is the story of Santiago Zavala, the son of a government minister, and Ambrosio, his chauffeur.[35] A random meeting at a dog pound leads the pair to a riveting conversation at a nearby bar known as "The Cathedral".[36] During the encounter, Zavala searches for the truth about his father's role in the murder of a notorious Peruvian underworld figure, shedding light on the workings of a dictatorship along the way.[37] Unfortunately for Zavala, his quest results in a dead end with no answers and no sign of a better future.[38] The novel attacks the dictatorial government of Odría by showing how a dictatorship controls and destroys lives.[30] The persistent theme of hopelessness makes Conversation in the Cathedral Vargas Llosa's most bitter novel.[38]

He lectured on Spanish American Literature at King's College London from 1969 to 1970.[39]

### 1970s and the "discovery of humor"[edit]

In 1971, Vargas Llosa published García Márquez: Story of a Deicide (García Márquez: historia de un deicidio), which was his doctoral thesis for the Complutense University of Madrid.[40][41] Although Vargas Llosa wrote this book-length study about his then friend, the Colombian Nobel laureate writer Gabriel García Márquez, they did not speak to each other again. In 1976, Vargas Llosa punched García Márquez in the face in Mexico City at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, ending the friendship.[42] Neither writer had publicly stated the underlying reasons for the quarrel.[43] A photograph of García Márquez sporting a black eye was published in 2007, reigniting public interest in the feud.[44] Despite the decades of silence, in 2007, Vargas Llosa agreed to allow part of his book to be used as the introduction to a 40th-anniversary edition of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was re-released in Spain and throughout Latin America that year.[45] Historia de un Deicidio was also reissued in that year, as part of Vargas Llosa's complete works.

Following the monumental work Conversation in the Cathedral, Vargas Llosa's output shifted away from more serious themes such as politics and problems with society. Latin American literary scholar Raymond L. Williams describes this phase in his writing career as "the discovery of humor".[46] His first attempt at a satirical novel was Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras), published in 1973.[47] This short, comic novel offers vignettes of dialogues and documents about the Peruvian armed forces and a corps of prostitutes assigned to visit military outposts in remote jungle areas.[48] These plot elements are similar to Vargas Llosa's earlier novel The Green House, but in a different form. Captain Pantoja and the Special Service is, therefore, essentially a parody of both The Green House and the literary approach that novel represents.[48] Vargas Llosa's motivation to write the novel came from actually witnessing prostitutes being hired by the Peruvian Army and brought to serve soldiers in the jungle.[49]

From 1974 to 1987, Vargas Llosa focused on his writing, but also took the time to pursue other endeavors.[50] In 1975, he co-directed an unsuccessful motion-picture adaptation of his novel, Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service.[50] In 1976 he was elected President of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers and oldest human rights organisation, a position he held until 1979.[50] During this time, Vargas Llosa constantly traveled to speak at conferences organized by international institutions such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where he was Simón Bolívar Professor and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College in 1977–78.[51][52][53]

In 1977, Vargas Llosa was elected as a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language, a membership he still holds today. That year, he also published Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor), based in part on his marriage to his first wife, Julia Urquidi, to whom he dedicated the novel.[54] She later wrote a memoir, Lo que Varguitas no dijo (What Little Vargas Didn't Say), in which she gives her personal account of their relationship. She states that Vargas Llosa's account exaggerates many negative points in their courtship and marriage while minimizing her role of assisting his literary career.[55] Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is considered one of the most striking examples of how the language and imagery of popular culture can be used in literature.[56] The novel was adapted in 1990 into a Hollywood feature film, Tune in Tomorrow.

### Later novels[edit]

Vargas Llosa in 1982

Vargas Llosa's fourth major novel, The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo), was published in 1981 and was his first attempt at a historical novel.[57] This work initiated a radical change in Vargas Llosa's style towards themes such as messianism and irrational human behaviour.[58] It recreates the War of Canudos, an incident in 19th-century Brazil in which an armed millenarian cult held off a siege by the national army for months.[59] As in Vargas Llosa's earliest work, this novel carries a sober and serious theme, and its tone is dark.[59] Vargas Llosa's bold exploration of humanity's propensity to idealize violence, and his account of a man-made catastrophe brought on by fanaticism on all sides, earned the novel substantial recognition.[60] Because of the book's ambition and execution, critics have argued that this is one of Vargas Llosa's greatest literary pieces.[60] Even though the novel has been acclaimed in Brazil, it was initially poorly received because a foreigner was writing about a Brazilian theme.[61] The book was also criticized as revolutionary and anti-socialist.[62] Vargas Llosa says that this book is his favorite and was his most difficult accomplishment.[62]

After completing The War of the End of the World, Vargas Llosa began to write novels that were significantly shorter than many of his earlier books. In 1983, he finished The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (Historia de Mayta, 1984).[57] The novel focuses on a leftist insurrection that took place on 29 May 1962, in the Andean city of Jauja.[57] Later the same year, during the Sendero Luminoso uprising, Vargas Llosa was asked by the Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry to join the Investigatory Commission, a task force to inquire into the massacre of eight journalists at the hands of the villagers of Uchuraccay.[63] The commission's main purpose was to investigate the murders in order to provide information regarding the incident to the public.[64] Following his involvement with the Investigatory Commission, Vargas Llosa published a series of articles to defend his position in the affair.[64] In 1986, he completed his next novel, Who Killed Palomino Molero (¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?), which he began writing shortly after the end of the Uchuraccay investigation.[64] Though the plot of this mystery novel is similar to the tragic events at Uchuraccay, literary critic Roy Boland points out that it was not an attempt to reconstruct the murders, but rather a "literary exorcism" of Vargas Llosa's own experiences during the commission.[65] The experience also inspired one of Vargas Llosa's later novels, Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes), originally published in 1993 in Barcelona.[66]

It was almost 20 years before Vargas Llosa wrote another major work: The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo), a political thriller, was published in 2000 (and in English in 2001). According to Williams, it is Vargas Llosa's most complete and most ambitious novel since The War of the End of the World.[67] Critic Sabine Koellmann sees it in the line of his earlier novels such as "Conversación en la catedral" depicting the effects of authoritarianism, violence and the abuse of power on the individual.[68] Based on the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, the novel has three main strands: one concerns Urania Cabral, the daughter of a former politician and Trujillo loyalist, who returns for the first time since leaving the Dominican Republic after Trujillo's assassination 30 years earlier; the second concentrates on the assassination itself, the conspirators who carry it out, and its consequences; and the third and final strand deals with Trujillo himself in scenes from the end of his regime.[67] The book quickly received positive reviews in Spain and Latin America,[69] and has had a significant impact in Latin America, being regarded as one of Vargas Llosa's best works.[67]

In 2003 he wrote The Way to Paradise in which he studies Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin.

In 2006, Vargas Llosa wrote The Bad Girl (Travesuras de la niña mala), which journalist Kathryn Harrison argues is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856).[70] In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the decades-long obsession of its narrator, a Peruvian expatriate in Paris, with a woman with whom he first fell in love when both were teenagers.

In 2019 he published the novel Tiempos recios (Harsh times ), about the 1954 coup in Guatemala.[71]

## Political career[edit]

### Turn to liberalism[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto (2016).

Like many other Latin American intellectuals, Vargas Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro.[32] He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persuaded by communist ideals after the success of the Cuban Revolution.[72] Gradually, Vargas Llosa came to believe that socialism was incompatible with what he considered to be general liberties and freedoms.[73] The official rupture between the writer and the policies of the Cuban government occurred with the so-called 'Padilla Affair', when the Castro regime imprisoned the poet Heberto Padilla for a month in 1971.[74] Vargas Llosa, along with other intellectuals of the time, wrote to Castro protesting the Cuban political system and its imprisonment of the artist.[75] Vargas Llosa has identified himself with liberalism rather than extreme left-wing political ideologies ever since.[76] Since he relinquished his earlier leftism, he has opposed both left- and right-wing authoritarian regimes.[77]

### Investigatory Commission[edit]

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato (left) with Mario Vargas Llosa (right) in 1981

With his appointment to the Investigatory Commission on the Uchuraccay massacre [es] in 1983, he experienced what literary critic Jean Franco calls "the most uncomfortable event in [his] political career".[66] Unfortunately for Vargas Llosa, his involvement with the Investigatory Commission led to immediate negative reactions and defamation from the Peruvian press; many suggested that the massacre was a conspiracy to keep the journalists from reporting the presence of government paramilitary forces in Uchuraccay.[64] The commission concluded that it was the indigenous villagers who had been responsible for the killings; for Vargas Llosa the incident showed "how vulnerable democracy is in Latin America and how easily it dies under dictatorships of the right and left".[78] These conclusions, and Vargas Llosa personally, came under intense criticism: anthropologist Enrique Mayer, for instance, accused him of "paternalism",[79] while fellow anthropologist Carlos Iván Degregori criticized him for his ignorance of the Andean world.[80] Vargas Llosa was accused of actively colluding in a government cover-up of army involvement in the massacre.[64] American Latin American literature scholar Misha Kokotovic summarizes that the novelist was charged with seeing "indigenous cultures as a 'primitive' obstacle to the full realization of his Western model of modernity".[81] Shocked both by the atrocity itself and then by the reaction his report had provoked, Vargas Llosa responded that his critics were apparently more concerned with his report than with the hundreds of peasants who later died at the hands of the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla organization.[82]

### Presidential candidacy[edit]

Main article: 1990 Peruvian general election

In 1987, he helped form and soon became a leader of the center-right party Movimiento Libertad.[83] The following year his party entered a coalition with the parties of Peru's two principal conservative politicians at the time, ex-president Fernando Belaúnde Terry (of the Popular Action party) and Luis Bedoya Reyes (of the Partido Popular Cristiano), to form the tripartite center-right coalition known as Frente Democrático (FREDEMO).[83] He ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as the candidate of the FREDEMO coalition with the support of the United States.[84] Many of Peru's political elite in the twenty first century would begin their careers in FREDEMO.[85] He proposed neoliberal policies similar to Fujimori that included a drastic economic austerity program that frightened most of the country's poor; this program emphasized the need for privatization, a market economy, free trade, and most importantly, the dissemination of private property.[86][87]

Vargas Llosa, according to Rospigliosi, inspired some of the objectives drafted by the Peruvian Armed Forces in Plan Verde, specifically in the volume titled "Driving Peru into the XXI century", which outlined Peru becoming a neoliberal country and called for the extermination of vulnerable populations deemed as economically burdensome.[88] Members of the Peruvian Armed Forces who drafted Plan Verde initially expected Vargas Llosa to win the presidency and support their objectives.[89][88] Although Vargas Llosa won the first round with 34% of the vote, Vargas Llosa was defeated by a then-unknown agricultural engineer, Alberto Fujimori, in the subsequent run-off.[87] Vargas Llosa included an account of his run for the presidency in the memoir A Fish in the Water (El pez en el agua, 1993).[90]

## Later life[edit]

Vargas Llosa at the founding act of the Spanish political party UPyD, September 2007

Vargas Llosa has mainly lived in Madrid since the 1990s, but spends roughly three months of the year in Peru with his extended family.[87][91] He also frequently visits London where he occasionally spends long periods. Vargas Llosa acquired Spanish citizenship in 1993, though he still holds Peruvian nationality. The writer often reiterates his love for both countries. In his Nobel speech he observed: "I carry Peru deep inside me because that is where I was born, grew up, was formed, and lived those experiences of childhood and youth that shaped my personality and forged my calling". He then added: "I love Spain as much as Peru, and my debt to her is as great as my gratitude. If not for Spain, I never would have reached this podium or become a known writer".[92]

Mario Vargas Llosa served as a visiting professor of Latin American studies at Harvard University during the 1992–1993 academic year.[93] Harvard later recognized Vargas Llosa by conferring upon him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1999.[94] In 1994 he was elected a member of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), he took up seat L on 15 January 1996.[95][96] Vargas Llosa joined the Mont Pelerin Society in 2014.[97] He is also a member of Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue.[98]

### Panama and Pandora Papers[edit]

Vargas Llosa was named in both the Panama Papers (2016) and Pandora Papers (2021) released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.[99] According to IDL-Reporteros, the British Virgin Islands company Melek Investing Inc. was documented to be owned by Vargas Llosa was used for book royalty profits and the sale of real estate in London and Madrid.[99] Following the Panama Papers leak in 2016, Carmen Balcells said on behalf of Vargas Llosa that investments were made "without the consent of Messrs. Vargas Llosa" while in the 2021 Pandora Papers leaks, Javier Martín, a representative of Vargas Llosa, said the writer "was not aware of the ownership of that company".[99] IDL-Reporteros provided a document showing Vargas Llosa's signature on a "Consent to Act as Director" form for Melek Investing Inc. as part of the 2021 leak.[99]

## Style of writing[edit]

### Plot, setting, and major themes[edit]

Vargas Llosa's style encompasses historical material as well as his own personal experiences.[100] For example, in his first novel, The Time of the Hero, his own experiences at the Leoncio Prado military school informed his depiction of the corrupt social institution which mocked the moral standards it was supposed to uphold.[29] Furthermore, the corruption of the book's school is a reflection of the corruption of Peruvian society at the time the novel was written.[31] Vargas Llosa frequently uses his writing to challenge the inadequacies of society, such as demoralization and oppression by those in political power towards those who challenge this power. One of the main themes he has explored in his writing is the individual's struggle for freedom within an oppressive reality.[101] For example, his two-volume novel Conversation in the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President Manuel A. Odría.[102] The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship by participating in the subversive activities of leftist political groups.[103] In addition to themes such as corruption and oppression, Vargas Llosa's second novel, The Green House, explores "a denunciation of Peru's basic institutions", dealing with issues of abuse and exploitation of the workers in the brothel by corrupt military officers.[46]

Many of Vargas Llosa's earlier novels were set in Peru, while in more recent work he has expanded to other regions of Latin America, such as Brazil and the Dominican Republic.[104] His responsibilities as a writer and lecturer have allowed him to travel frequently and led to settings for his novels in regions outside of Peru.[50] The War of the End of the World was his first major work set outside Peru.[30] Though the plot deals with historical events of the Canudos revolt against the Brazilian government, the novel is not based directly on historical fact; rather, its main inspiration is the non-fiction account of those events published by Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha in 1902.[59] The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, takes place in the Dominican Republic;[67] in preparation for this novel, Vargas Llosa undertook a comprehensive study of Dominican history.[105] The novel was characteristically realist, and Vargas Llosa underscores that he "respected the basic facts, ... I have not exaggerated", but at the same time he points out "It's a novel, not a history book, so I took many, many liberties."[106]

One of Vargas Llosa's more recent novels, The Way to Paradise (El paraíso en la otra esquina), is set largely in Tahiti in France.[107] Based on the biography of former social reformer Flora Tristan, it demonstrates how Flora and Paul Gauguin were unable to find paradise, but were still able to inspire followers to keep working towards a socialist utopia.[108] Unfortunately, Vargas Llosa was not as successful in transforming these historical figures into fiction. Some critics, such as Barbara Mujica, argue that The Way to Paradise lacks the "audacity, energy, political vision, and narrative genius" that was present in his previous works.[109]

### Modernism and postmodernism[edit]

The works of Mario Vargas Llosa are viewed as both modernist and postmodernist novels.[110] Though there is still much debate over the differences between modernist and postmodernist literature, literary scholar M. Keith Booker claims that the difficulty and technical complexity of Vargas Llosa's early works, such as The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral, are clearly elements of the modern novel.[34] Furthermore, these earlier novels all carry a certain seriousness of attitude—another important defining aspect of modernist art.[110] By contrast, his later novels such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, and The Storyteller (El hablador) appear to follow a postmodernist mode of writing.[111] These novels have a much lighter, farcical, and comic tone, characteristics of postmodernism.[48] Comparing two of Vargas Llosa's novels, The Green House and Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, Booker discusses the contrast between modernism and postmodernism found in the writer's works: while both novels explore the theme of prostitution as well as the workings of the Peruvian military, Booker points out that the former is gravely serious whereas the latter is ridiculously comic.[48]

### Interlacing dialogues[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa, actor in his play Los cuentos de la peste, with Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Teatro Español, Madrid (2015).

Literary scholar M. Keith Booker argues that Vargas Llosa perfects the technique of interlacing dialogues in his novel The Green House.[48] By combining two conversations that occur at different times, he creates the illusion of a flashback. Vargas Llosa also sometimes uses this technique as a means of shifting location by weaving together two concurrent conversations happening in different places.[112] This technique is a staple of his repertoire, which he began using near the end of his first novel, The Time of the Hero.[113] However, he does not use interlacing dialogues in the same way in all of his novels. For example, in The Green House the technique is used in a serious fashion to achieve a sober tone and to focus on the interrelatedness of important events separated in time or space.[114] In contrast, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service employs this strategy for comic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts.[115] This device is similar to both Virginia Woolf's mixing of different characters' soliloquies and Gustave Flaubert's counterpoint technique in which he blends together conversation with other events, such as speeches.[112] This was seen to occur yet again in Vargas Llosa's most current work, "Tiempos Recios," as two dialogues, one between Trujillo and Castillo Armas, and another between Trujillo and Abbes García, are juxtaposed.

### Literary influences[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa (2012).

Vargas Llosa's first literary influences were relatively obscure Peruvian writers such as Martín Adán, Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and César Moro.[116] As a young writer, he looked to these revolutionary novelists in search of new narrative structures and techniques in order to delineate a more contemporary, multifaceted experience of urban Peru. He was looking for a style different from the traditional descriptions of land and rural life made famous by Peru's foremost novelist at the time, José María Arguedas.[117] Vargas Llosa wrote of Arguedas's work that it was "an example of old-fashioned regionalism that had already exhausted its imaginary possibilities".[116] Although he did not share Arguedas's passion for indigenous reality, Vargas Llosa admired and respected the novelist for his contributions to Peruvian literature.[118] Indeed, he has published a book-length study on his work, La utopía arcaica (1996).

Rather than restrict himself to Peruvian literature, Vargas Llosa also looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style.[119] Sartre's influence is most prevalent in Vargas Llosa's extensive use of conversation.[120] The epigraph of The Time of the Hero, his first novel, is also taken directly from Sartre's work.[121] Flaubert's artistic independence—his novels' disregard of reality and morals—has always been admired by Vargas Llosa,[122] who wrote a book-length study of Flaubert's aesthetics, The Perpetual Orgy.[123] In his analysis of Flaubert, Vargas Llosa questions the revolutionary power of literature in a political setting; this is in contrast to his earlier view that "literature is an act of rebellion", thus marking a transition in Vargas Llosa's aesthetic beliefs.[124] Other critics such as Sabine Köllmann argue that his belief in the transforming power of literature is one of the great continuities that characterize his fictional and non-fictional work, and link his early statement that 'Literature is Fire' with his Nobel Prize Speech 'In Praise of Reading and Writing'.[125]

One of Vargas Llosa's favourite novelists, and arguably the most influential on his writing career, is the American William Faulkner.[126] Vargas Llosa considers Faulkner "the writer who perfected the methods of the modern novel".[127] Both writers' styles include intricate changes in time and narration.[120][127] In The Time of the Hero, for example, aspects of Vargas Llosa's plot, his main character's development and his use of narrative time are influenced by his favourite Faulkner novel, Light in August.[128]

In addition to the studies of Arguedas and Flaubert, Vargas Llosa has written literary criticisms of other authors that he has admired, such as Gabriel García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and Jean-Paul Sartre.[129] The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence of these authors on his writing, and to recognize a connection between himself and the other writers;[129] critic Sara Castro-Klarén argues that he offers little systematic analysis of these authors' literary techniques.[129] In The Perpetual Orgy, for example, he discusses the relationship between his own aesthetics and Flaubert's, rather than focusing on Flaubert's alone.[130]

## Political views[edit]

Since distancing himself from left-wing politics, he has embraced right-wing politics.[131] In 1989, The Washington Post would write that though Vargas Llosa's party appeared center-right, "he has ties with far-right politicians in other countries".[132] Vargas Llosa has continued to be criticized due to his association with far-right groups and politicians.[133][134][135][136][137] The Christian Science Monitor would call Vargas Llosa "a right-wing maverick"[85] while Jacobin would plainly describe him as a "far-right novelist".[138]

Vargas Llosa has described himself as a supporter of liberalism and said that the individuals who have had most impact on his political thought have included Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Isaiah Berlin.[131] According to The Nation, Vargas Llosa would condemn leftist groups entirely due to the controversies of some while minimizing similar actions by neoliberal governments.[131]

He supports far-right candidate Javier Milei in 2023 Argentine general election.[139]

### Chile[edit]

Following the arrest of Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity in 1999, Vargas Llosa would write an op-ed in The New York Times asking why left wing dictators were also not being arrested.[140] During the 2021 Chilean general elections, Vargas Llosa expressed support for conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast.[134][140]

### Brazil[edit]

During the 2022 Brazilian general election, Vargas Llosa expressed his endorsement for conservative leader Jair Bolsonaro.[141] "The case of Bolsonaro it's a hard question. His jokes are very hard to endorse, for a liberal [...] Now, between Bolsonaro and Lula, I prefer Bolsonaro. Even with jokes from Bolsonaro, Lula no." said Vargas Llosa at a conference.[142]

### Mexico[edit]

A month after losing the election, at the invitation of Octavio Paz, Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century: The Experience of Freedom". Focused on the collapse of communist rule in central and eastern Europe, it was broadcast on Mexican television from 27 August to 2 September. Addressing the conference on 30 August 1990, Vargas Llosa embarrassed his hosts by condemning the Mexican system of power based on the rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had been in power for 61 years. Criticizing the PRI by name, he commented, "I don't believe that there has been in Latin America any case of a system of dictatorship which has so efficiently recruited the intellectual milieu, bribing it with great subtlety." He declared, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship. The perfect dictatorship is not communism, not the USSR, not Fidel Castro; the perfect dictatorship is Mexico. Because it is a camouflaged dictatorship."[143][144] The statement, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship" became a cliché in Mexico[145] and internationally, until the PRI fell from power in 2000.

### Peru[edit]

In April 2011, the writer took part in the 2011 Peruvian general election by saying he was going to vote for Alejandro Toledo (Peruvian former president 2001–2006). After casting his vote, he said his country should stay in the path of legality and freedom.[146][147]

Since her introduction into politics, Vargas Llosa has had a complex opinion on conservative politician Keiko Fujimori, daughter of president of Peru Alberto Fujimori. During her candidacy in the 2011 Peruvian general election, Vargas Llosa said "the worst option is that of Keiko Fujimori because it means the legitimation of one of the worst dictatorships that Peru has had in its history”, endorsing and calling for Peruvian voters to consider left-wing candidate Ollanta Humala.[148] After Fujimori announced her candidacy for the 2016 Peruvian general election, Vargas Llosa said in 2014 "Keiko is the daughter of a murderer and a thief who is imprisoned, tried by civil courts with international observers, sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and theft. I do not want her to win the elections".[149] However, in the second round of the 2021 Peruvian general election, Vargas Llosa expressed support for Keiko, sharing opposition to far-left candidate Pedro Castillo and describing Fujimori as the "lesser of two evils".[150][151][152] French intellectuals, who criticized his addition to the Académie Française, said that Vargas Llosa contributed to the Peruvian political crisis during the 2021 Peruvian general election.[136]

### Spain[edit]

In February 2008 he ended his support for the People's Party in favor of the recently created Union, Progress and Democracy, claiming that certain conservative views held by the former party are at odds with his classical liberal beliefs. His political ideologies appear in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, Álvaro Pombo, Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán.[153] He continued to write, both journalism and fiction, and to travel extensively. He also taught as a visiting professor at a number of prominent universities.[154]

Vargas Llosa is opposed to Catalan independence from Spain. Attending an anti-independence rally in October 2017, he said: "Spanish democracy is here to stay. No separatist conspiracy can destroy it."[155] In 2021 he attended a rally against the pardon of the Catalan independence leaders in Madrid.[156][157]

## Later personal life and interests[edit]

Vargas Llosa wearing a cap from Universitario de Deportes, the peruvian soccer team he has been a fan since his youth.

He has declared himself a music lover, ensuring that feels a special fondness for Gustav Mahler.[158]

Vargas Llosa is an agnostic, "I was not a believer, nor was I an atheist either, but, rather, an agnostic".[159]

As for hobbies, he is fond of association football and is a supporter of Universitario de Deportes.[160] The writer himself has confessed in his book A Fish in the Water since childhood he has been a fan of the 'cream colored' team from Peru, which was first seen in the field one day in 1946 when he was only 10 years old.[161] In February 2011, Vargas Llosa was awarded an honorary life membership of this football club, in a ceremony which took place in the Monumental Stadium of Lima.[162][163]

Starting in 2015, Vargas Llosa was in a relationship with Filipina Spanish socialite and TV personality Isabel Preysler and divorced his first cousin Patricia Llosa.[23][164][165] In December 2022, it was announced Vargas Llosa and Preysler had split up.[166]

He was infected with COVID-19 and was hospitalized in April 2022.[167]

## Impact[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa is considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and Isabel Allende.[168] In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva Novela), Fuentes offers an in-depth literary criticism of the positive influence Vargas Llosa's work has had on Latin American literature.[169] Indeed, for the literary critic Gerald Martin, writing in 1987, Vargas Llosa was "perhaps the most successful ... certainly the most controversial Latin American novelist of the past twenty-five years".[170]

Most of Vargas Llosa's narratives have been translated into multiple languages, marking his international critical success.[168] Vargas Llosa is also noted for his substantial contribution to journalism, an accomplishment characteristic of few other Latin American writers.[171] He is recognized among those who have most consciously promoted literature in general, and more specifically the novel itself, as avenues for meaningful commentary about life.[172] During his career, he has written more than a dozen novels and many other books and stories, and, for decades, he has been a voice for Latin American literature.[173]

A number of Vargas Llosa's works have been adapted for the screen, including The Time of the Hero and Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (both by the Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi) and The Feast of the Goat (by Vargas Llosa's cousin, Luis Llosa).[174] Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter was turned into the English-language film, Tune in Tomorrow. The Feast of the Goat has also been adapted as a theatrical play by Jorge Alí Triana, a Colombian playwright and director.[175]

## Awards and honors[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa awards and honors. From upper left: Honoris Causa Doctorate from Harvard University; Honoris Causa Doctorate from University of Cambridge; Honoris Causa Doctorate and Bachelor's degree from National University of San Marcos, his alma mater; Nobel Prize in Literature Medal and Diploma.

Vargas Llosa has won numerous awards for his writing, from the 1959 Premio Leopoldo Alas and the 1962 Premio Biblioteca Breve to the 1993 Premio Planeta (for Death in the Andes) and the Jerusalem Prize in 1995.[176] The literary critic Harold Bloom has included his novel The War of the End of the World in his list of essential literary works in the Western Canon.

An important distinction he has received is the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, considered the most important accolade in Spanish-language literature and awarded to authors whose "work has contributed to enrich, in a notable way, the literary patrimony of the Spanish language".[177] In 2002, Vargas was the recipient of the PEN/Nabokov Award. Vargas Llosa also received the 2005 Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute and was the 2008 recipient of the Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Award at Dickinson College.[178]

On 7 October 2010 the Swedish Academy announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."[179] The decision to award Vargas Llosa the Nobel Prize in Literature was well received around the world.[180]

On 18 November 2010, Vargas Llosa received the honorary degree Degree of Letters from the City College of New York of the City University of New York, where he also delivered the President's Lecture.[181]

On 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos I with the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (Marquess of Vargas Llosa).[182][183]

On 25 November 2021, Vargas Llosa was elected to the Académie française.[184]

### Honours[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa receiving the Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral of Chile (2010).

* Austria
* Cross of Honour for Science and Art
* Chile
* First Class of the Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral
* Dominican Republic
* Grand Cross with Silver Star of the Order of Christopher Columbus
* France
* Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
* Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1993)[185]
* Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
* Mexico
* Commander (Placa) of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
* Nicaragua
* Grand Cross with Silver Star of the Order of Rubén Darío
* Peru
* Member of the Peruvian Academy of Language
* Grand Cross with Diamonds of the Order of the Sun of Peru
* 2011 – Grand Cross of the Medal of Honor of the National University of San Marcos, his alma mater.
* Panama
* Gran Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa
* Philippines
* Honorary Professor, bestowed by the University of Santo Tomas, Espana, Manila
* Spain
* Hereditary Marquessate of Vargas Llosa, bestowed by King Juan Carlos I of Spain
* Member of the Royal Spanish Academy
* Gold Medal of the Community of Madrid

### Awards[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa (2008).

* Argentina
* Honorable Visitor of Buenos Aires
* Chile
* 2018 – Emeritus Professor at Adolfo Ibáñez University
* 2018 – Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit[186]
* China
* 2011 – Honorary Senior Research Fellow from the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
* 2011 – Honorary Senior Research Fellow from the Shanghai International Studies University
* Dominican Republic
* 2016 – Premio Internacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña from the Ministry of Culture and Presidency of the Republic
* France
* 1985 – Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway for his novel La guerra del fin del mundo
* Italy
* 1982 – Istituto italo-latino americano Prize
* 1989 – Scanno Prize for his novel El hablador
* 1990 – Castiglione de Sicilia Prize
* 1986 – Grinzane Cavour Prize for Fiction foreign
* 2004 – Grinzane Cavour Prize
* 2010 – International Award Viareggio-Versilia
* 2010 – International Award Viareggio-Versilia
* 2014 – Bruno Leoni Award
* Israel
* 1995 – Jerusalem Prize
* Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Japan
* 2011 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from the University of Tokyo
* 2011 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
* Germany
* 1996 – Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
* Mexico
* 2012 – Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language[187]
* 2016 – Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Prize[188]
* Peru
* 1967 – Premio Nacional de Novela del Perú for his novel La casa verde
* Honoris Causa Doctorate from the National University of Saint Augustine
* Honoris Causa Doctorate from the University of Lima
* Medal and Honorary Diploma from the Catholic University of Santa María
* 2001 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from the National University of San Marcos, his alma mater.
* Spain
* 1958 – Premio Leopoldo Alas for his work Los jefes
* 1962
* Premio Biblioteca Breve for his work La ciudad y los perros
*     * 1967
* Prix Formentor for his work La ciudad y los perros
* Premio de la Crítica Española for his novel La casa verde
* Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel La casa verde
* 1986 – Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
* 1993 – Planeta Prize for Death in the Andes, a thriller starring one of the characters in Who Killed Palomino Molero?
* 1994
* Archbishop Saint Clemente Literary Prize, for his work Lituma en los Andes
* Miguel de Cervantes Prize, after taking Spanish citizenship
* 1997 – Mariano de Cavia Prize from ABC
* 1999 – Menéndez Pelayo International Prize
* 2009 – Premio ABC Cultural & Ámbito Cultural from ABC and El Corte Inglés
* 2013 – Convivencia Prize from Ceuta.
* 2015 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from the University of Burgos
* Pluma de Oro from the Spanish Writers Club
* Switzerland
* 1988 – Freedoom Prize from Max Schmidheiny Foundation
* UK
* 1977 – "Simón Bolívar" Cathedratic Professor at Cambridge University
* 1988 – Honorary Fellow Queen Mary College
* 2004 – Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
* 2013 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from University of Cambridge
* USA
* 1987 – Honorary Fellow from Modern Language Association of America
* 1987 – Honorary Fellow from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
* 1990 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Florida International University
* 1991 – T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing from the Ingersoll Foundation
* 1991 – Doctor in Humane Letters from Connecticut College
* 1992 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Boston University
* 1993 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Dowling College
* 1994 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Georgetown University
* 1994 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Yale College
* 1999 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from Harvard University
* 1999 – UCLA Medal from UCLA
* 2002 – PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature from PEN America
* 2006 – Maria Moors Cabot prize
* 2008 – Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts and Humanities from Pennsylvania State University
* 2001 – Dr. Honoris Causa en la Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo
* 2011 – St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates[189]
* 2012 – "10 Most Influential Ibero American Intellectuals" of the year – Foreign Policy magazine Mario Vargas Llosa Papers[190]
* 2020 – America Award in Literature
* Venezuela
* 1967 – Rómulo Gallegos Prize
* 2008 – Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Simón Bolívar University

### Invited Commencement Addresses[edit]

* 1992 – Boston University[191]

### Nobel Prize[edit]

* 2010 – Nobel Prize for Literature

## Arms[edit]

* Heraldry of Mario Vargas Llosa
* Coat of Arms as Marquess of Vargas Llosa
(2011–present)

## Selected works[edit]

### Fiction[edit]

* 1959 – Los jefes (The Cubs and Other Stories, 1979)
* 1963 – La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero, 1966)
* 1966 – La casa verde (The Green House, 1968)
* 1969 – Conversación en la catedral (Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975)
* 1973 – Pantaleón y las visitadoras (Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, 1978)
* 1977 – La tía Julia y el escribidor (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 1982)
* 1981 – La guerra del fin del mundo (The War of the End of the World, 1984)
* 1984 – Historia de Mayta (The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, 1985)
* 1986 – ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? (Who Killed Palomino Molero?, 1987)
* 1987 – El hablador (The Storyteller, 1989)
* 1988 – Elogio de la madrastra (In Praise of the Stepmother, 1990)
* 1993 – Lituma en los Andes (Death in the Andes, 1996)
* 1997 – Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, 1998)
* 2000 – La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat, 2001)
* 2003 – El paraíso en la otra esquina (The Way to Paradise, 2003)
* 2006 – Travesuras de la niña mala (The Bad Girl, 2007)
* 2010 – El sueño del celta (The Dream of the Celt, 2010)
* 2013 – El héroe discreto (The Discreet Hero, 2015)
* 2016 – Cinco esquinas (The Neighborhood, 2018)
* 2019 – Tiempos Recios (Harsh Times, 2021)
* 2022 – La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós)

### Non-fiction[edit]

* 1958 – Bases para una interpretación de Rubén Darío (The basis for interpretation of Ruben Dario)
* 1971 – García Márquez: historia de un deicidio (García Márquez: Story of a Deicide)
* 1975 – La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y "Madame Bovary" (The Perpetual Orgy)
* 1983 – Contra viento y marea vol. 1 (Making Waves) – the English translation has selections from all three volumes of Contra viento y marea
* 1986 – Contra viento y marea vol. 2
* 1990 – Contra viento y marea vol. 3
* 1990 – La verdad de las mentiras: ensayos sobre la novela moderna (A Writer's Reality)
* 1993 – El pez en el agua. Memorias (A Fish in the Water)
* 1996 – La utopía arcaica: José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo (Archaic utopia: José María Arguedas and the fictions of indigenismo)
* 1997 – Cartas a un joven novelista (Letters to a Young Novelist)
* 2000 – Nationalismus als neue Bedrohung (Nationalism as a new threat)[9]
* 2001 – El lenguaje de la pasión (The Language of Passion)
* 2004 – La tentación de lo imposible (The Temptation of the Impossible)
* 2007 – El Pregón de Sevilla (as Introduction for LOS TOROS)
* 2008 – Wellsprings[192]
* 2009 – El viaje a la ficción: El mundo de Juan Carlos Onetti
* 2011 – Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics
* 2012 – La civilización del espectáculo
* 2012 – In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture
* 2014 – Mi trayectora intelectual (My Intellectual Journey)
* 2015 – Notes on the Death of Culture
* 2018 – Sabers and Utopias
* 2018 – La llamada de la tribu (The Call of the Tribe)

### Drama[edit]

* 1952 – La huida del inca
* 1981 – La señorita de Tacna
* 1983 – Kathie y el hipopótamo
* 1986 – La Chunga
* 1993 – El loco de los balcones
* 1996 – Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos
* 2007 – Odiseo y Penélope
* 2008 – Al pie del Támesis
* 2010 – Las mil y una noches

Vargas Llosa's essays and journalism have been collected as Contra viento y marea, issued in three volumes (1983, 1986, and 1990). A selection has been edited by John King and translated and published as Making Waves.

* 2003 – "The Language of Passion"

## See also[edit]

* Latin American Boom
* Latin American Literature

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Elected on 24 March 1994
2. ^ Elected on 25 November 2021

## References[edit]

1. ^ "¿Por qué Mario Vargas Llosa estuvo a punto de perder la nacionalidad peruana?" (in Spanish). La República. 17 February 2023.
2. ^ a b "Mario Vargas Llosa aceptó la nacionalidad dominicana: "Es un ejemplo para América Latina"" (in Spanish). Infobae. 1 June 2023.
3. ^ "The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment". The New York Times. 20 February 2018. "But when Fujimori shut down Congress, Vargas Llosa became his enemy. He asked the international community to cut off aid to Fujimori and noted (correctly) that Latin American militaries often favor coups d'état. In response, Fujimori's head of the armed forces, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza, suggested that Vargas Llosa was deliberately harming Peruvians. Álvaro Vargas Llosa told me that they learned of a plan to strip the entire Vargas Llosa family of its Peruvian citizenship. Mario appealed to Spain, and in 1993 it granted him citizenship. In Peru, this event was widely perceived as the petulant betrayal of a sore loser."
4. ^ "Vargas Llosa" Archived 31 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
5. ^ Boland & Harvey 1988, p. 7 and Cevallos 1991, p. 272
6. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010". Nobelprize. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
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8. ^ The first year given is the original publication date; the second is the year of English publication.
9. ^ a b Kordić 2005, pp. 265–268.
10. ^ "Mario Vargas Llosa | Reporters without borders". RSF. 9 September 2018.
11. ^ Williams 2001, pp. 15–16
12. ^ a b c d Williams 2001, p. 17
13. ^ Morote 1998, p. 14
14. ^ Morote 1998, pp. 6–7
15. ^ a b Williams 2001, p. 24
16. ^ a b Williams 2001, p. 30
17. ^ Williams 2001, p. 31
18. ^ Williams 2001, p. 32
19. ^ Vincent 2007, p. 2
20. ^ a b Castro-Klarén 1990, p. 9
21. ^ Williams 2001, p. 34
22. ^ Williams 2001, p. 39
23. ^ a b c Iber, Patrick (15 April 2019). "The Political Lives of Mario Vargas Llosa". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
24. ^ The newspapers were El Mercurio Peruano and El Comercio. Castro-Klarén 1990, p. 21
25. ^ Williams 2001, p. 44
26. ^ a b Williams 2001, p. 45
27. ^ "De cuando Vargas Llosa fue "negro" de una millonaria". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2022. "El escritor refleja su propia experiencia en la obra teatral 'Kathie y el hipopótamo'"
28. ^ a b Williams 2001, p. 54
29. ^ a b Kristal 1998, p. 32
30. ^ a b c d e Cevallos 1991, p. 273
31. ^ a b Kristal 1998, p. 33
32. ^ a b Kristal 1998, p. xi
33. ^ Armas Marcelo 2002, p. 102\. See also I Edition of the International Novel Prize Rómulo Gallegos, Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela Ministerio del Poder Popular para La Cultura, archived from the original on 16 July 2011, retrieved 16 April 2008
34. ^ a b c d Booker 1994, p. 6
35. ^ Kristal 1998, p. 61
36. ^ Castro-Klarén 1990, p. 80
37. ^ Barroso Sacoman, Mateus (13 October 2016). Da serra à costa O Peru e as obras de Mario Vargas Llosa de 1950 a 1960 (1. Auflage, neue Ausgabe ed.). Saarbrücken. ISBN 978-3-330-74802-6. OCLC 962093882.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
38. ^ a b Castro-Klarén 1990, p. 106
39. ^ "Tenth Nobel Prize Winner". King's College London. 10 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
40. ^ Jaime Perales Contreras, review of Mario Vargas Llosa, Obras Completas, Vol. VI, Tomo. I, in Americas Magazine, Organization of American States, July–August 2007.
41. ^ Shaw 1973, p. 431
42. ^ "Todo occurrió en 1976, en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la ciudad de México. ... todos los presentes quedaron impresionados y sorprendidos por el puñetazo que MVLL propinó a García Márquez cuando el escritor colombiano venía a abrazar al novelista peruano." Armas Marcelo 2002, p. 110
43. ^ Dammann 2007
44. ^ Cohen 2007
45. ^ Vincent 2007, p. 3
46. ^ a b Qtd. in Cevallos 1991, p. 273
47. ^ Castro-Klarén 1990, p. 136
48. ^ a b c d e Booker 1994, p. 33
49. ^ Setti 1989, p. 65
50. ^ a b c d Williams 2001, p. 60
51. ^ Williams 2001, pp. 60–61
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53. ^ "Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Economics, and Literature for Churchill Fellows". Churchill College, Cambridge. 12 October 2010. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
54. ^ Kristal 1998, p. 91
55. ^ Kristal 1998, p. 221
56. ^ Booker 1994, p. 54
57. ^ a b c Kristal 1998, p. 140
58. ^ Campos & Oviedo 1981, p. 299
59. ^ a b c Booker 1994, p. 75
60. ^ a b Kristal 1998, p. 124
61. ^ Setti 1989, p. 46
62. ^ a b Setti 1989, p. 42
63. ^ Kristal 1998, pp. 150–151
64. ^ a b c d e Kristal 1998, p. 151
65. ^ Boland & Harvey 1988, p. 164
66. ^ a b Franco 2002, p. 56
67. ^ a b c d Williams 2001, p. 267
68. ^ Koellmann 2002, pp. 239 ff.
69. ^ Williams 2001, p. 268
70. ^ Harrison 2007
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Works by Mario Vargas Llosa

Novels|

* The Time of the Hero (1963)
* The Green House (1966)
* Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)
* Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973)
* Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)
* The War of the End of the World (1981)
* The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984)
* Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986)
* The Storyteller (1987)
* In Praise of the Stepmother (1988)
* Death in the Andes (1993)
* The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997)
* The Feast of the Goat (2000)
* The Way to Paradise (2003)
* The Bad Girl (2006)
* The Dream of the Celt (2010)
* The Discreet Hero (2013)
* The Neighborhood (2016)
* Harsh Times (2019)

Short story collection|

* The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)

Essays|

* The Basis for Interpretation of Rubén Darío (1958)
* The Perpetual Orgy (1975)
* The Temptation of the Impossible (2004)

Essay collections|

* A Writer's Reality (1991)
* A Fish in the Water (1993)
* The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works (1995)
* Making Waves (1997)
* Letters to a Young Novelist (1997)
* The Language of Passion (2001)

Adaptations|

* Tune in Tomorrow (film; 1990)
* The Feast of the Goat (film; 2005)

Offices and distinctions

| Awards

Preceded by

Ángel González

|  Recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
1986  | Succeeded by

Camilo José Cela

Preceded by

Miguel Delibes

|  Recipient of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize
1994
Preceded by

Herta Müller

|  Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
2010  | Succeeded by

Tomas Tranströmer

Spanish nobility
New title |  Marquess of Vargas Llosa
2011 – present  | Incumbent
Heir:
Álvaro Vargas Llosa
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by

V. S. Pritchett

|  International President of PEN International
1976–1979  | Succeeded by

Per Wästberg

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Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature

1901–1920|

* 1901: Sully Prudhomme
* 1902: Theodor Mommsen
* 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
* 1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray
* 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
* 1906: Giosuè Carducci
* 1907: Rudyard Kipling
* 1908: Rudolf Eucken
* 1909: Selma Lagerlöf
* 1910: Paul Heyse
* 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
* 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
* 1913: Rabindranath Tagore
* 1914
* 1915: Romain Rolland
* 1916: Verner von Heidenstam
* 1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
* 1918
* 1919: Carl Spitteler
* 1920: Knut Hamsun

1921–1940|

* 1921: Anatole France
* 1922: Jacinto Benavente
* 1923: W. B. Yeats
* 1924: Władysław Reymont
* 1925: George Bernard Shaw
* 1926: Grazia Deledda
* 1927: Henri Bergson
* 1928: Sigrid Undset
* 1929: Thomas Mann
* 1930: Sinclair Lewis
* 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumously)
* 1932: John Galsworthy
* 1933: Ivan Bunin
* 1934: Luigi Pirandello
* 1935
* 1936: Eugene O'Neill
* 1937: Roger Martin du Gard
* 1938: Pearl S. Buck
* 1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
* 1940

1941–1960|

* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944: Johannes V. Jensen
* 1945: Gabriela Mistral
* 1946: Hermann Hesse
* 1947: André Gide
* 1948: T. S. Eliot
* 1949: William Faulkner
* 1950: Bertrand Russell
* 1951: Pär Lagerkvist
* 1952: François Mauriac
* 1953: Winston Churchill
* 1954: Ernest Hemingway
* 1955: Halldór Laxness
* 1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
* 1957: Albert Camus
* 1958: Boris Pasternak
* 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
* 1960: Saint-John Perse

1961–1980|

* 1961: Ivo Andrić
* 1962: John Steinbeck
* 1963: Giorgos Seferis
* 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award)
* 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
* 1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs
* 1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
* 1968: Yasunari Kawabata
* 1969: Samuel Beckett
* 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* 1971: Pablo Neruda
* 1972: Heinrich Böll
* 1973: Patrick White
* 1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
* 1975: Eugenio Montale
* 1976: Saul Bellow
* 1977: Vicente Aleixandre
* 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
* 1979: Odysseas Elytis
* 1980: Czesław Miłosz

1981–2000|

* 1981: Elias Canetti
* 1982: Gabriel García Márquez
* 1983: William Golding
* 1984: Jaroslav Seifert
* 1985: Claude Simon
* 1986: Wole Soyinka
* 1987: Joseph Brodsky
* 1988: Naguib Mahfouz
* 1989: Camilo José Cela
* 1990: Octavio Paz
* 1991: Nadine Gordimer
* 1992: Derek Walcott
* 1993: Toni Morrison
* 1994: Kenzaburō Ōe
* 1995: Seamus Heaney
* 1996: Wisława Szymborska
* 1997: Dario Fo
* 1998: José Saramago
* 1999: Günter Grass
* 2000: Gao Xingjian

2001–2020|

* 2001: V. S. Naipaul
* 2002: Imre Kertész
* 2003: J. M. Coetzee
* 2004: Elfriede Jelinek
* 2005: Harold Pinter
* 2006: Orhan Pamuk
* 2007: Doris Lessing
* 2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
* 2009: Herta Müller
* 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
* 2011: Tomas Tranströmer
* 2012: Mo Yan
* 2013: Alice Munro
* 2014: Patrick Modiano
* 2015: Svetlana Alexievich
* 2016: Bob Dylan
* 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro
* 2018: Olga Tokarczuk
* 2019: Peter Handke
* 2020: Louise Glück

2021–present|

* 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
* 2022: Annie Ernaux
* 2023: Jon Fosse
* 2024: to be announced

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2010 Nobel Prize laureates

Chemistry|

* Richard F. Heck (United States)
* Ei-ichi Negishi (Japan)
* Akira Suzuki (Japan)

Literature (2010)|

* Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru/Spain)

Peace (2010)|

* Liu Xiaobo (China)

Physics|

* Andre Geim (Russia/Netherlands/United Kingdom)
* Konstantin Novoselov (Russia/United Kingdom)

Physiology or Medicine|

* Robert G. Edwards (United Kingdom)

Economic Sciences|

* Peter Diamond (United States)
* Dale T. Mortensen (United States)
* Christopher A. Pissarides (Cyprus/United Kingdom)

Nobel Prize recipients
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

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Laureates of the Prince or Princess of Asturias Award for Literature

Prince of Asturias Award for Literature

1980s|

* 1981: José Hierro
* 1982: Miguel Delibes and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
* 1983: Juan Rulfo
* 1984: Pablo García Baena
* 1985: Ángel González
* 1986: Mario Vargas Llosa and Rafael Lapesa
* 1987: Camilo José Cela
* 1988: Carmen Martín Gaite and José Ángel Valente
* 1989: Ricardo Gullón

1990s|

* 1990: Arturo Uslar Pietri
* 1991: The people of Puerto Rico
* 1992: Francisco Nieva
* 1993: Claudio Rodríguez
* 1994: Carlos Fuentes
* 1995: Carlos Bousoño
* 1996: Francisco Umbral
* 1997: Álvaro Mutis
* 1998: Francisco Ayala
* 1999: Günter Grass

2000s|

* 2000: Augusto Monterroso
* 2001: Doris Lessing
* 2002: Arthur Miller
* 2003: Fatema Mernissi and Susan Sontag
* 2004: Claudio Magris
* 2005: Nélida Piñon
* 2006: Paul Auster
* 2007: Amos Oz
* 2008: Margaret Atwood
* 2009: Ismail Kadare

2010s|

* 2010: Amin Maalouf
* 2011: Leonard Cohen
* 2012: Philip Roth
* 2013: Antonio Muñoz Molina
* 2014: John Banville

Princess of Asturias Award for Literature

2010s|

* 2015: Leonardo Padura
* 2016: Richard Ford
* 2017: Adam Zagajewski
* 2018: Fred Vargas
* 2019: Siri Hustvedt

2020s|

* 2020: Anne Carson
* 2021: Emmanuel Carrère
* 2022: Juan Mayorga
* 2023: Haruki Murakami

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Laureates of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize

1970s|

* 1976: Jorge Guillén
* 1977: Alejo Carpentier
* 1978: Dámaso Alonso
* 1979: Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego

1980s|

* 1980: Juan Carlos Onetti
* 1981: Octavio Paz
* 1982: Luis Rosales
* 1983: Rafael Alberti
* 1984: Ernesto Sabato
* 1985: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
* 1986: Antonio Buero Vallejo
* 1987: Carlos Fuentes
* 1988: María Zambrano
* 1989: Augusto Roa Bastos

1990s|

* 1990: Adolfo Bioy Casares
* 1991: Francisco Ayala
* 1992: Dulce María Loynaz
* 1993: Miguel Delibes
* 1994: Mario Vargas Llosa
* 1995: Camilo José Cela
* 1996: José García Nieto
* 1997: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
* 1998: José Hierro
* 1999: Jorge Edwards

2000s|

* 2000: Francisco Umbral
* 2001: Álvaro Mutis
* 2002: José Jiménez Lozano
* 2003: Gonzalo Rojas
* 2004: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
* 2005: Sergio Pitol
* 2006: Antonio Gamoneda
* 2007: Juan Gelman
* 2008: Juan Marsé
* 2009: José Emilio Pacheco

2010s|

* 2010: Ana María Matute
* 2011: Nicanor Parra
* 2012: José Manuel Caballero Bonald
* 2013: Elena Poniatowska
* 2014: Juan Goytisolo
* 2015: Fernando del Paso
* 2016: Eduardo Mendoza
* 2017: Sergio Ramírez
* 2018: Ida Vitale
* 2019: Joan Margarit

2020s|

* 2020: Francisco Brines
* 2021: Cristina Peri Rossi
* 2022: Rafael Cadenas
* 2023: Luis Mateo Díez

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List of Rómulo Gallegos Prize winners

* 1967: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
* 1972: Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
* 1977: Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
* 1982: Fernando del Paso (Mexico)
* 1987: Abel Posse (Argentina)
* 1989: Manuel Mejía Vallejo (Colombia)
* 1991: Arturo Uslar Pietri (Venezuela)
* 1993: Mempo Giardinelli (Argentina)
* 1995: Javier Marías (Spain)
* 1997: Ángeles Mastretta (Mexico)
* 1999: Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
* 2001: Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain)
* 2003: Fernando Vallejo (Colombia)
* 2005: Isaac Rosa (Spain)
* 2007: Elena Poniatowska (Mexico)
* 2009: William Ospina (Colombia)
* 2011: Ricardo Piglia (Argentina)
* 2013: Eduardo Lalo (Puerto Rico)
* 2015: Pablo Montoya (Colombia)

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Real Academia Española seat L

* Adrián Conink (1713)
* Diego Suárez de Figueroa (1728)
* Manuel Villegas y Oyarvide (1743)
* Francisco de la Huerta y Vega (1746)
* Pedro de Guzmán (1752)
* José Guevara Vasconcelos (1779)
* Vicente González Arnao (1804)
* José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán (1814)
* Bernardino Fernández de Velasco (1839)
* José Caveda y Nava (1852)
* José Zorrilla (1885)
* Zeferino González y Díaz Tuñón[1]
* Cipriano Muñoz (1895)
* Ramiro de Maeztu (1935)
* Eugenio Montes (1978)
* Juan Rof Carballo (1984)
* Mario Vargas Llosa (1996)

[1] He was elected in 1893 but never took the seat

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Current members of the Real Academia Española

* a: Pedro García Barreno
* A: Pedro Cátedra García[1]
* b: Miguel Sáenz
* B: Aurora Egido
* c: Víctor García de la Concha
* C: Luis Goytisolo
* d: Dolores Corbella
* D: Darío Villanueva
* e: Juan Gil Fernández
* E: Carmen Iglesias
* f: José B. Terceiro
* F: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
* g: Soledad Puértolas
* G: José Manuel Sánchez Ron
* h: José Manuel Blecua Perdices
* H: Félix de Azúa
* i: Paloma Díaz-Mas
* I: Luis Mateo Díez
* j: Álvaro Pombo
* J: Carlos García Gual
* k: José Antonio Pascual
* K: José María Bermúdez de Castro
* l: Emilio Lledó
* L: Mario Vargas Llosa
* m: José María Merino
* M: Juan Mayorga
* n: Carme Riera
* N: Guillermo Rojo
* ñ: Luis María Anson
* o: Antonio Fernández Alba
* O: Pere Gimferrer
* p: Francisco Rico Manrique
* P: Inés Fernández-Ordóñez
* q: Asunción Gómez Pérez
* Q: Pedro Álvarez de Miranda
* r: Santiago Muñoz Machado
* R: vacant
* s: Paz Battaner
* S: Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez
* t: Ignacio Bosque
* T: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
* u: Antonio Muñoz Molina
* U: Clara Janés
* V: Juan Luis Cebrián
* X: Clara Sánchez
* Z: José Luis Gómez

[1] He/she was elected but is pending to take the seat

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Académie française seat 18

* Jean Baudoin (1634)
* François Charpentier (1650)
* Jean François de Chamillart (1702)
* Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal-Duke of Villars (1714)
* Honoré Armand de Villars, Duke of Villars (1734)
* "Cardinal Loménie de Brienne" (1770)
* Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac (1803)
* Alexis de Tocqueville (1841)
* Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1860)
* Albert de Broglie, Duke of Broglie (1862)
* Melchior de Vogüé (1901)
* Ferdinand Foch (1918)
* Philippe Pétain (1929)
* André François-Poncet (1952)
* Edgar Faure (1978)
* Michel Serres (1990)
* Mario Vargas Llosa (2021)

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Current members of the Académie française

1. Dagens
2. Laferrière
3. vacant
4. Marion
5. Makine
6. vacant
7. Hoffmann
8. Rondeau
9. Grainville
10. Delay
11. de Broglie
12. Thomas
13. Serra
14. vacant
15. Vitoux
16. vacant
17. Orsenna
18. Vargas Llosa
19. Agacinski
20. Rinaldi
21. Finkielkraut
22. vacant
23. Rosenberg
24. Sureau
25. Fernandez
26. Rouart
27. Nora
28. Rufin
29. Maalouf
30. Sallenave
31. Edwards
32. Ory
33. Bona
34. Cheng
35. Compagnon
36. Cassin
37. Zink
38. Lambron
39. Clair
40. Darcos

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