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."