Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. Upon...
NationalityPeruvian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 March 1936
CountryPeru
Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.