Facts about Mario Vargas Llosa
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Barcelona's literary scene captivated Vargas Llosa during his 1973-1975 residency, where he completed the manuscript for his ambitious novel Pantaleón y las visitadoras.
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A Peruvian intellectual who lived in London from 1966 to 1974, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote some of his most celebrated novels while living abroad in Europe.
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Vargas Llosa's 1977 novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter draws heavily from his real-life marriage to his aunt Julia Urquidi, whom he married in 1955 at age 23.
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Vargas Llosa's 1966 novel Conversation in the Cathedral spans 600 pages and unfolds as a single dialogue between two men discussing Peru's political corruption.
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Vargas Llosa spent two years in military school as a teenager, an experience that profoundly influenced his 1962 debut novel La ciudad y los perros about cadet life.
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Vargas Llosa's 1987 novel The Storyteller explores Machiguenga indigenous culture in the Peruvian Amazon through dual narrative perspectives.
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During the 1950s, Mario Vargas Llosa worked as a journalist and broadcaster in Lima while simultaneously writing his debut novel La ciudad y los perros.
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Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance.
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The 1973 novel The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa won the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Prize, one of Latin America's most important literary awards.
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In 1990, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa finished second in the presidential election, receiving 34 percent of the vote.