Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian and Spanish author, essayist, journalist, college professor, politician, and Nobel Prize laureate. He is recognized as one of the most significant writers to come from his generation and Latin America, having a large global audience and international impact. Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936 and has written some of the most significant literature to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include "The Green House," "The Feast of the Goat," and "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," as well as critical studies of other writers, such as "The Perpetual Orgy" on Flaubert.

Vargas Llosa's writing is known for its virtuosity and abundant experimental elements, such as the combination of dialogue and description and the blending of actions and times. He has received numerous awards, including the Planeta, Cervantes, Príncipe de Asturias, and Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He has also been politically active, serving as president of PEN International and heading the government commission to investigate the massacre of eight journalists in Peru in 1983. Vargas Llosa has produced critical studies of García Márquez, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus, and has written extensively on the roots of contemporary fiction. He has published numerous works, including "The Green House," "Conversation in the Cathedral," "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," "The War of the End of the World," "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta," "The Storyteller," "In Praise of the Stepmother," "Death in the Andes," and "The Feast of the Goat."
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The Time of the Hero 1962
2 The Green House 1965
3 Conversation in the Cathedral 1969
4 Captain Pantoja and the Special Service 1973
5 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 1977
6 The War of the End of the World 1981
7 The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta 1984
8 Who Killed Palomino Molero? 1986
9 The Storyteller 1987
10 In Praise of the Stepmother 1988
11 Death in the Andes 1993
12 The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto 1997
13 The Feast of the Goat 2000
14 The Way to Paradise 2003
15 The Bad Girl 2006
16 The Dream of the Celt 2010
17 The Discreet Hero 2013
18 The Neighborhood 2016
19 Harsh Times 2021
Collections
# Title Year
1 The Cubs and Other Stories 1967
Plays
# Title Year
1 Three Plays 1990
2 Book Of Latin American Plays 2004
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 The Children's Boat 2015
2 Fonchito and The Moon 2022
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 The Perpetual Orgy 1975
2 A Writer's Reality 1990
3 A Fish in the Water 1993
4 Making Waves 1996
5 Letters to a Young Novelist 1997
6 The Language of Passion 2000
7 The Temptation of the Impossible 2004
8 Andes 2004
9 Touchstones 2007
10 Sabers and Utopias 2009
11 In Praise of Reading and Fiction 2010
12 Notes on the Death of Culture 2012
13 The Call of the Tribe 2018
Mario Vargas Llosa Anthologies
# Title Year
1 The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories 1997