Mario Vargas Llosa

7 summariesFiction, Politics, Historical Fiction

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds citizenship of Spain and the Dominican Republic. 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. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.

Books by Mario Vargas Llosa

7 books available

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
4.2 (29k) average on GoodreadsFiction
In a Peruvian military academy, cadets led by the Jaguar rebel against harsh hazing and strict rules. Their pranks turn into a tragic cycle of betrayal, murder, and revenge, revealing deep corruption within the institution and society.
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
4.3 (26k) average on GoodreadsPolitics
A New York lawyer returns to the Dominican Republic to confront the ghosts of Trujillo's brutal dictatorship, unearthing her family's entanglement in the regime's violent end and the enduring trauma it inflicted.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa
3.9 (16k) average on GoodreadsRomance
An 18-year-old radio news editor's scandalous affair with his 32-year-old aunt unfolds amidst the increasingly bizarre and interwoven plots of a friend's wildly popular radio soap operas.
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
4.2 (9k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
In the arid Brazilian backlands, a prophet ignites an apocalyptic rebellion, forming a utopian republic of outcasts that challenges the new Brazilian state, ending in a devastating war.
In Praise of the Stepmother
Mario Vargas Llosa
3.4 (7k) average on GoodreadsRomance
A wealthy Lima family's seemingly idyllic life unravels into a tapestry of forbidden desires and erotic games, all under the watchful, artistic eye of a precocious stepson.
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa
4.3 (7k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Amidst the suffocating corruption and political decay of 1950s Peru, Santiago Zavala grapples with his father's complicity in a regime that shattered their nation, all while searching for the precise moment everything went irrevocably wrong.
Death in the Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa
3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In a remote Andean village plagued by disappearances, a jaded corporal hunts for Shining Path guerrillas while the town whispers of ancient cannibalistic rituals, all set against a backdrop of surreal love stories and Peru's violent history.