Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa has left his literary fingerprint on the world as an avant-garde writer who tackled important issues head-on without preaching or losing site of his artistry.
Born in Arequipa in 1936, he spent most of his childhood in Bolivia and northern Peru. He attended a military academy and then Colegio Nacional San Miguel De Piura. Later he studied law and literature at the University of San Marcos. From the University of Madrid, he earned a PhD.
It was while in Europe that he began to publish literary criticism and publish short stories. He moved to Paris where he wrote and taught. It wasn't until 1975 that he returned to Peru. In 1990, he ran for president as a conservative candidate.
But by then he had established himself as a literary tour de force. He began publishing novels while still in France. His first novel was set in the military academy which he had attended. Since then he has published further novels, essays, plays, and literary criticism.
Bibliography
La Huida Del Inca |
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta |
The Cubs and Other Stories |
Who Killed Palomino Molero? |
The Time of the Hero |
The Storyteller |
The Green House |
In Praise of the Stepmother |
Conversation in the Cathedral |
A Writer's Reality |
The Perpetual Orgy |
Three Plays |
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
Death in the Andes |
The War of the End of the World |
A Fish in the Water |
The Young Lady from Tacna |
The Notebooks of Don Riboberto |
Kathie and the Hippopotamus |
The Feast of the Goat |
The Way to Paradise |
