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Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller,The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.

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Charlotte Whittle's recent translations include novels by Norah Lange, Jorge Comensal, and Elisa Victoria. She has received two PEN Translates awards and her translation of Norah Lange’s People in the Room was nominated for several prizes. Her translation of Irene Vallejo's Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World is forthcoming from Knopf in October. She divides her time between England and the United States.



Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

“It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond.”
September 23, 2022  By Mario Vargas Llosa
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All Things Are Possible: Mario Vargas Llosa on the Eternal Youth of Flaubert’s Writing

"If we are to be honest, the true creator of the modern novel was Flaubert."
August 29, 2022  By Mario Vargas Llosa
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City of Exiles: When Mario Vargas Llosa Met Julio Cortázar in Paris

What It Meant to Be a Mid-Century Latin American Writer in Paris
March 1, 2018  By Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning
September 6, 2016  By Mario Vargas Llosa
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