Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Personal Info

  • Name:

    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • Birthday:

    1936-03-28

  • Place of Birth: Arequipa, Peru
  • Gender:

    Male

  • Know For:

    Writing

  • Popularity: 0.857
  • Also Known As

Mario Vargas Llosa

Biography

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of 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 larger 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." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit.

Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral, 1969/1975). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982), have been adapted as feature films.

Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian. Increasingly, he has expanded his range, and tackled themes that arise from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa has made many criticisms of nationalism in different parts of the world. Another change over the course of his career has been a shift from a style and approach associated with literary modernism, to a sometimes playful postmodernism.

Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa has been politically active throughout his career. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with its policies, particularly after the imprisonment of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, and now identifies as a liberal. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating classical liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori. He is the person who, in 1990, "coined the phrase that circled the globe," declaring on Mexican television, "Mexico is the perfect dictatorship", a statement which became an adage during the following decade.

Vargas Llosa is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.

Top Movie Cast

The Emma Bovary Trial
The Emma Bovary Trialtrue- Self - Writer

2021-09-15

6.8
La última lidia
La última lidiatrue- Él mismo

2023-05-12

2.0
The Padilla Affair
The Padilla Affairtrue- Self (archive footage)

2022-09-02

7.0
A Philosopher in the Arena
A Philosopher in the Arenatrue- Self

2019-02-01

2.0
El Quijote desde la platea
El Quijote desde la plateatrue- Self - Writer

2019-04-22

4.5
Mario y los perros
Mario y los perrostrue- Himself - Writer

2019-06-28

7.0
Letters to Eloisa
Letters to Eloisatrue- Self

2020-03-08

0.0
El corazón del Teatro Real
El corazón del Teatro Realtrue- Self

2018-09-23

8.0
Las alturas de Macchu Picchu
Las alturas de Macchu Picchutrue- Narrator (voice)

1981-10-08

6.0
Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
Sepa: Our Lord of Miraclestrue- Narrator (voice)

1986-10-01

6.0
Che: muerte de la utopia?
Che: muerte de la utopia?true

1999-06-12

0.0

Top Movie Crew

The Cubs
The Cubstrue

Writing

1973-05-10

5.0
Tune in Tomorrow...
Tune in Tomorrow...true

Writing

1990-10-26

5.3
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
Captain Pantoja and the Special Servicestrue

Writing

1999-10-01

7.2
Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
Sepa: Our Lord of Miraclestrue

Writing

1986-10-01

6.0
The City and the Dogs
The City and the Dogstrue

Writing

1985-07-18

7.8
The Andes's Odyssey
The Andes's Odysseytrue

Writing

1976-02-12

0.0
Yaguar
Yaguartrue

Writing

1986-10-13

7.0
Some Time Later
Some Time Latertrue

Crew

2018-12-28

6.1
Tatuajes en la memoria
Tatuajes en la memoriatrue

Writing

2024-08-29

0.0
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
Pantaleón y las visitadorastrue

Directing

1975-04-27

1.5
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
Pantaleón y las visitadorastrue

Writing

1975-04-27

1.5

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