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.
Filmography
all 30
Movies 21
self 16
TV Shows 9
Writer 7
Screenplay 1
Director 1
The Padilla Affair (2022)
Milá Vs Milá (2021)
The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
Hemingway (2021)
El Quijote desde la platea (2019)
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez (2017)
Skavlan (2009)
Lo + plus (1995)
Yaguar (1986)
Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles (1986)
The Cubs (1973)
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GenderMale
Birthday1936-03-28 (88 years old)
Birth NameJorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
Birth PlaceArequipa, Peru
Religionagnosticism
RelationshipsJulia Urquidi Illanes (1955 - 1964), Patricia Llosa Urquidi (1965 - 2016), Isabel Preysler
ChildrenMorgana Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Vargas Llosa
FatherErnesto Vargas Maldonado
MotherDora Llosa Ureta
RelativesLuis Llosa
CitizenshipsDominican Republic, Peru, Spain
ResidencesLima · Piura · Arequipa, Peru, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Paris, France, Madrid · Barcelona, Spain
AwardsNobel Prize in Literature, Maria Moors Cabot prize, Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Jerusalem Prize, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Grinzane Cavour Prize, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Premio Biblioteca Breve, National Book Critics Circle Award, Premio Planeta de Novela, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, Castilian Narrative Critic Award, Prix Formentor, Alfonso Reyes International Prize, Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit, Irving Kristol Award, Library of Congress Living Legend, St. Louis Literary Award, Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Order of Christopher Columbus, Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío, Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ortega y Gasset Awards, Scanno Prize, Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language, National Culture Award, honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2, Premio Ceppo Pistoia, Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of the Sun of Peru, Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, honorary doctor of the University of Alicante, honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid, honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, doctor honoris causa from the University of Pau, honorary doctorate of the University of Reims, Caonabo de Oro Award, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, gold Medal of the Community of Madrid, Freedom Prize, honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos, honorary doctorate of the University of Granada, honorary doctorate of the University of Burgos, honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University, Viareggio-Versilia International Prize, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon, Mariano de Cavia' Price, Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá, Don Quijote Journalism Prize, honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, honorary doctor of the University of Miami
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