Mario Vargas Llosa - Nobel Prize in Literature — 2010
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Mario Vargas Llosa

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 2010
for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat
Citizenship
SpainSpainPeruPeruDominican RepublicDominican Republic
Languages
English, French, Spanish
date of birth
3/28/1936
place of birth
Arequipa
date of death
4/13/2025
place of death
Lima
Lived
89 years

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occupation
  • essayist
  • prose writer
  • broadcaster
  • university teacher
  • journalist
  • playwright
  • film director
    • start time: 1976
    • end time: 1976
  • writer
  • literary critic
  • founder
  • dramaturge
  • philosopher
  • opinion journalist
  • novelist
  • politician
field of work
  • creative and professional writing
  • literature
educated at
  • Complutense University of Madrid
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • start time: 1958
    • end time: 1971
    • doctoral advisor: Alonso Zamora Vicente
  • National University of San Marcos
    • academic major: literary studies
    • academic major: law
    • start time: 1953
    • end time: 1958
  • Colegio La Salle
    • start time: March 1947
    • end time: December 1949
  • Colegio San Miguel de Piura
    • start time: March 1952
    • end time: December 1952
  • Leoncio Prado Military Academy
    • start time: March 1950
    • end time: December 1951
employer
  • Harvard University
    • start time: 1992
    • end time: 1992
  • Princeton University
  • King's College London
    • start time: 1969
    • end time: 1970
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • La Crónica
    • start time: 1952
    • end time: 1952
  • La Industria
    • start time: 4/1/1952
    • end time: December 1952
position held
  • chairman of PEN International
    • start time: 1977
    • end time: 1979
  • Member of the Royal Spanish Academy
    • start time: 3/15/1996
    • end time: 4/13/2025
  • Member of the Académie française
    • start time: 11/25/2021
    • end time: 4/13/2025
work location
  • Barcelona
  • Madrid
  • Lima
  • Cambridge
  • London
  • Paris
member of
  • Royal Spanish Academy
  • Académie Française
    • start time: 11/25/2021
  • Peruvian Academy of Language
    • start time: 1977
    • end time: 2025
  • Brazilian Academy of Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Inter-American Dialogue
  • Mont Pelerin Society
notable work
  • Conversation in The Cathedral
  • The Green House
  • The Time of the Hero
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