Mario Vargas Llosa

Born

in Arequipa, Peru

March 28, 1936

Website

http://www.mvargasllosa.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Gustave Flaubert, Balzac, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sart ...more

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Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho.

He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, includ ...more

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Mario Vargas Llosa’s books

Average rating: 3.98 · 190,630 ratings · 15,647 reviews · 291 distinct works • Similar authors

	Travesuras de la niña mala 4.08 avg rating — 28,548 ratings — published 2006 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 25,139 ratings — published 2000 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La ciudad y los perros 4.13 avg rating — 16,619 ratings — published 1962 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 15,734 ratings — published 1977 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pantaleón y las visitadoras 3.97 avg rating — 8,464 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the End of the World 4.23 avg rating — 8,455 ratings — published 1981 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cinco esquinas 3.41 avg rating — 4,810 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 4.34 avg rating — 6,844 ratings — published 1969 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El sueño del celta 3.77 avg rating — 6,695 ratings — published 2010 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 6,204 ratings — published 1993 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

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“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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Polls

A poll for the next readings from PERU. The illustration depicts a view of Machu Picchu.

The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa

2 votes, 22.2%

Red April: A Novel. Santiago Roncagliolo

2 votes, 22.2%

The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition. César Vallejo

1 vote, 11.1%

Only Mario Vargas Llosa's novels

1 vote, 11.1%

The whole list

1 vote, 11.1%

The Feast of the Goat. Mario Vargas Llosa

1 vote, 11.1%

The War of the End of the World. Mario Vargas Llosa (write-in)

1 vote, 11.1%

Peruvian Traditions. Ricardo Palma

0 votes, 0.0%

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. Mario Vargas Llosa

0 votes, 0.0%

9 total votes

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