Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Born: 28 March 1936, Arequipa, Peru
Prize motivation: "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/press.html
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The Permanent Secretary
Press Release
7 October 2010
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2010 is awarded to the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Biobibliographical notes
Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936 in Arequipa, Peru to Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta. After his parents divorced, he grew up with his mother and grandfather in the city of Cochabamba in Bolivia. The family moved to Piura, Peru in 1946 where his grandfather held an appointment as a civil servant. His parents were reunited in 1947 and settled in Lima. Mario Vargas Llosa went to a Catholic school in Lima. Later his father sent him to the military school, Leoncio Prado. After graduating from Colegio Nacional San Miguel in Piura, Mario Vargas Llosa studied law and literature in Lima and Madrid. In 1955, he married Julia Urquidi. In 1959, he moved to Paris where he worked as a language teacher and as a journalist for Agence-France-Presse and the national television service of France. As an author, he had an international breakthrough with the novel La ciudad y los perros (1963; The Time of the Hero, 1966). This novel, which builds on experiences from Leoncio Prado, was considered controversial in his home land. A thousand copies were burnt publicly by officers from Leoncio Prado. In 1964 Mario Vargas Llosa divorced Julia Urquidi. The following year, he married his cousin, Patricia Llosa. After having lived alternately in Paris, Lima, London and Barcelona, he returned to Lima in 1974. In 1975 he was elected to the Peruvian Academy. He has lectured and taught at a number of universities in the USA, South America and Europe. In 1990 he ran for the Presidency representing the FREDEMO alliance in Peru, but lost the election. In 1994 he was elected to the Spanish Academy, where he took his seat in 1996. In recent years he has lived in Barcelona, Madrid, Lima, Paris and London. His well known works include Conversación en la catedral (1969; Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975), La guerra del fin del mundo (1981; The War of the End of the World, 1984) and La fiesta del chivo (2000; The Feast of the Goat, 2001). He is also a noted journalist and essayist.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/bio-bibl.html
Other Resources
Links to other sites
Mario Vargas Llosa's official web site
On Mario Vargas Llosa from Pegasos Author's Calendar
Photo Gallery
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| Mario Vargas Llosa signing books. Photo taken in Pietrasanta, Italy, on June 13, 2010. Photo: Daniele Devoti, Creative Commons |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa (left) with Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (right) at Harvard University. Photo taken in April 1979. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa with his daughter Morgana. Photo taken in 1979. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa with his son Alvaro. Photo taken in Cuzco, 1978. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa signing books, together with his sons, Gonzalo and Alvaro. Photo taken in Sevilla in April 1974. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa (right) and Gabriel García Márquez (far left). Photo taken in 1972. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| From left to right: José Miguel Oviedo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Marta de Oviedo, Mercedes de García Márquez and Gabriel García Márquez. Photo taken in Lima, 1967. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Back row from left: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Mario Vargas Llosa and Daniel Mayer defending Peruvian political prisoners. Photo taken in Paris, April 1967. Photo: M.C. Orive Credits: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa and his wife Patricia. Photo taken in 1967. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa, as a child, together with his mother. Photo: Mario Vargas Llosa official web site |
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