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Mario Vargas Llosa


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in Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru
March 28, 1936

Died
April 13, 2025

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. 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. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial 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".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l
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La peste ha sido a lo largo de la historia una de las peores pesadillas de la humanidad. El coronavirus será una pandemia pasajera. Lo que no pasará es el miedo a la muerte, que nos acompaña como una sombra
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“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
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“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
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