Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the Latin American Boom generation. Born on March 28, 1936, in Arequipa, Peru, he rose to international prominence in the 1960s with novels drawing from his experiences at a military academy and his engagement with Peruvian society. He acquired Spanish citizenship in 1993. His notable works include early masterpieces such as The Time of the Hero (1963), The Green House (1965), Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), and later novels such as The War of the End of the World (1981), The Feast of the Goat (2000), and The Dream of the Celt (2010). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 for 'his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.' He died in Lima on April 13, 2025.