Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most distinguished fiction writers and essayists.
A Peruvian novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, literary critic, he is the author of the novels The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, In Praise of the Stepmother, and The Feast of the Goat, and of several works of nonfiction, including Making Waves (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Perpetual Orgy, and the autobiography A Fish in the Water. His most recent novel is The Bad Girl.
Among his many awards are the National Critics' Prize (1967), the Peruvian National Prize (1967), the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award (1985) and Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1994), as well as the PEN/Nabokov Award (2002). Vargas Llosa has taught at such institutions as King's College of the University of London, the University of Puerto Rico, Washington State University, and Columbia University. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
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