Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa on 28 March 1936; he spent his childhood in Cochabamba, in Bolivia, where his grandfather was consul, and did not meet his father until he was ten. A pupil at the Leoncio Prado military school in Lima, he studied at San Marcos and then in Madrid, and settled in Paris. An unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of Peru in 1990, naturalised Spanish in 1993, he received the Cervantes Prize in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in 2010, and entered the Académie française in 2021. He died in Lima on 13 April 2025.

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• NovelAunt Julia and the ScriptwriterLa tía Julia y el escribidorMario Vargas Llosa · 1977Literature