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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors 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. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Genres: Mystery
Novels
The Green House (1965)
The Time of the Hero (1966)
Conversation in the Cathedral (1975)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1978)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982)
The War of the End of the World (1984)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1986)
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
The Storyteller (1989)
In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
Death in the Andes (1996)
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997)
The Feast of the Goat (2001)
The Way to Paradise (2003)
The Bad Girl (2007)
The Dream of the Celt (2012)
The Discreet Hero (2015)
The Neighborhood (2018)
The Time of the Hero (1966)
Conversation in the Cathedral (1975)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1978)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982)
The War of the End of the World (1984)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1986)
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
The Storyteller (1989)
In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
Death in the Andes (1996)
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997)
The Feast of the Goat (2001)
The Way to Paradise (2003)
The Bad Girl (2007)
The Dream of the Celt (2012)
The Discreet Hero (2015)
The Neighborhood (2018)
Collections
Plays
Novellas
Non fiction
The Perpetual Orgy (1986)
A Writer's Reality (1990)
A Fish in the Water (1994)
Making Waves (1996)
The Andes (2001)
Letters to a Young Novelist (2002)
The Language of Passion (2003)
The Temptation of the Impossible (2007)
Touchstones (2011)
In Praise of Reading and Fiction (2011)
Notes on the Death of Culture (2015)
Kingdom of Olives and Ash (2017)
Sabers and Utopias (2018)
A Writer's Reality (1990)
A Fish in the Water (1994)
Making Waves (1996)
The Andes (2001)
Letters to a Young Novelist (2002)
The Language of Passion (2003)
The Temptation of the Impossible (2007)
Touchstones (2011)
In Praise of Reading and Fiction (2011)
Notes on the Death of Culture (2015)
Kingdom of Olives and Ash (2017)
Sabers and Utopias (2018)
Awards
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Mario Vargas Llosa recommends
Turing's Delirium (2006)
Edmundo Paz Soldán
"One of the most important Latin American authors of the new generation."
See How Much I Love You (2009)
Luis Leante
"Wholly entertaining... a novel that hooks you from the first line... the reader lives the tragedy of a people who have been systematically marginalized and sacrificed by history."
The Sound of Things Falling (2012)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
"One of the most original new voices in Latin American Literature."
American Dreams (2014)
Eduardo González Viaña
"A magnificent testimony of the Latin American presence in the United States."
Fever Dream (2017)
Samanta Schweblin
"Samanta Schweblin is one of the most promising voices in modern literature."
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